Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington
was an African American slave who was born April, 1856 in Hales Ford, VA.
In 1865, he and his family moved to Malden, West
Virginia and worked in a salt mine. The Freedman's Bureau helped
him and his family by giving them food, medicine and let Booker go to a
public school. In 1872, Booker attended Hampton Institute,
a school for blacks, until 1875. In 1881, Booker founded Tuskegee
Normal and Industrial Institute. He used an old abandoned church
in Alabama and became its principal. The school taught farming, carpentry,
mechanics, and also trained teachers. Tuskegee Institute is now called
Tuskegee University.
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