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  1. Up From Slavery: The Autobiography of Booker T. Washington by Booker T. Washington, 2010-09-23
  2. Booker T. Washington and the Struggle against White Supremacy: The Southern Educational Tours, 1908-1912 by David H. Jackson, 2009-08-15
  3. Then Darkness Fled: The Liberating Wisdom of Booker T. Washington (Leaders in Action Series) by Stephen Mansfield, 2002-11
  4. From Slave To College President: Being The Life Story Of Booker T. Washington (1902) by G. Holden Pike, 2010-09-10
  5. Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Struggle for Racial Uplift (African American History Series (Wilmington, Del.), No. 1.) by Jacqueline M. Moore, 2003-01-15
  6. Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, et all 2010-08-02
  7. Up From Slavery by Booker T. (introduction by Clarence A. Andrews) Washington, 1967-01-01
  8. Booker T. Washington And Black Progress by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, 2004-06-14
  9. Booker T. Washington and the Negros Place in American Life by samuel spencer, 1955-06
  10. Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington by Robert J. Norrell, 2009-01-19
  11. The Negro Problem by Booker T. Washington, et al., 2009-10-04
  12. Booker T. Washington (On My Own Biography) by Thomas Amper, 1998-10
  13. Up From Slavery:: Autobiography of Booker T. Washington by Booker T. Washington, 2010-07-10
  14. Booker T. Washington: Volume 1: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901 (Galaxy Book: 428) by Louis R. Harlan, 1975-02-13

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Booker T. Washington, Education When Booker entered school he took the name of his stepfather and became known as Booker T. Washington. After
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Booker Taliaferro was born a mulatto slave in Franklin Country on 5th April, 1856. His father was an unknown white man and his mother, the slave of James Burroughs, a small farmer in Virginia. Later, his mother married the slave, Washington Ferguson. When Booker entered school he took the name of his stepfather and became known as Booker T. Washington.
After the Civil War the family moved to Malden, West Virginia. Ferguson worked in the salt mines and at the age of nine Booker found employment as a salt-packer. A year later he became a coal miner (1866-68) before going to work as a houseboy for the wife of Lewis Ruffner, the owner of the mines. She encouraged Booker to continue his education and in 1872 he entered the Hampton Agricultural Institute.
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Booker T. Washington (18561915). Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in Franklin County near Roanoke, Virginia in 1856, and moved with his family just
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Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in Franklin County near Roanoke, Virginia in 1856, and moved with his family just after the Civil War to Malden, West Virginia, where Washington worked in the salt mines. In the selection here from his autobiography, Up From Slavery, Washington tells the story of his journey from West Virginia to Hampton Institute in Virginia's Tidewater region and then to the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. When Washington became president of Tuskegee in 1881, the school hardly existed, yet largely through his efforts it became one of the leading facilities for black education in the United States. By the 1890s, Washington was the most prominent African-American in the country, and a number of Presidents, as well as business leaders, relied on Washington as an advisor. Other African-American leaders and intellectuals, however, most notably W.E.B. DuBois , resented Washington's message of political accommodation in favor of economic progress and distrusted his reliance on wealthy white Northerners for assistance. Leaders such as DuBois also resented Washington's willingness to use his political and economic influence in controlling ways that led them to refer to the "Tuskegee Machine." Washington's autobiography, Up From Slavery

4. Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington (18561915) Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in Franklin County near Roanoke, Virginia in 1856, and moved with his family just after the Civil War to Malden, West Virginia, where Washington worked in the salt mines.
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Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in Franklin County near Roanoke, Virginia in 1856, and moved with his family just after the Civil War to Malden, West Virginia, where Washington worked in the salt mines. In the selection here from his autobiography, Up From Slavery, Washington tells the story of his journey from West Virginia to Hampton Institute in Virginia's Tidewater region and then to the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. When Washington became president of Tuskegee in 1881, the school hardly existed, yet largely through his efforts it became one of the leading facilities for black education in the United States. By the 1890s, Washington was the most prominent African-American in the country, and a number of Presidents, as well as business leaders, relied on Washington as an advisor. Other African-American leaders and intellectuals, however, most notably W.E.B. DuBois , resented Washington's message of political accommodation in favor of economic progress and distrusted his reliance on wealthy white Northerners for assistance. Leaders such as DuBois also resented Washington's willingness to use his political and economic influence in controlling ways that led them to refer to the "Tuskegee Machine." Washington's autobiography, Up From Slavery

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WASHINGTON, Booker Taliaferro educator, born in Hale's Ford, Franklin County, Virginia, 18 April, 1856. He is of African descent, and early removed to West Virginia. He was graduated at Hampton institute in 1875, and in the same year entered Wayland seminary, whence he was called to fill the chair of a teacher at Hampton. There he was elected by the Alabama state authorities to the presidency of Tuskegee Institute, which he organized in 1881. Under his management it has grown from an institution with one teacher and thirty students to one with twenty teachers and 300 students. The property consists of 540 acres, a blacksmith's shop, sawmill carpenter's shop, brickyard, printing-office, and several large school-buildings, one of which, shown in the vig­nette, was built by the students. It is valued at $68,000, and is out of debt. - E dited Appleton's American Biography © 2001 by Virtualology TM
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On April 5, 1856, a child who later called himself Booker T. Washington, was born in slavery on this 207-acre tobacco farm. The realities of life as a slave in piedmont Virginia, the quest by African Americans for education and equality, and the post-war struggle over political participation all shaped the options and choices of Booker T. Washington. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881 and later became an important and controversial leader of his race at a time when increasing racism in the United States made it necessary for African Americans to adjust themselves to a new era of legalized oppression. Visitors are invited to step back in time and experience firsthand the life and landscape of people who lived in an era when slavery was part of the fabric of American life. -

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Booker T. Washington. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Booker Talifero (T.) Washington (April 5, 1856 November 15, 1915) was
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Booker Talifero (T.) Washington April 5 November 15 ) was an African-American educator born into slavery in Piedmont Virginia . After the American Civil War , when the Emancipation Proclamation was enforced, he worked with his mother Jane as a salt-packer in a West Virginia facility, and, when he could, attended school. At 16, he entered the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, a school intended to train black teachers. Booker T. Washington later founded and served as president of what is now Tuskegee University , an academic and vocational school for blacks during Reconstruction . He was to become one of America's foremost educators of his time. He also recruited George Washington Carver to teach and conduct research at Tuskegee. Active in politics, he was routinely consulted by Congressmen and Presidents about the appointment of blacks to political positions. He worked and socialized with many white politicians and notables. He argued that self-reliance was the key to improved conditions for blacks in the US. However, for his advice to blacks to "compromise" and accept segregation , other black activists of the time, such as W. E. B. DuBois

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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Compiled by Bennie J. McRae, Jr. SPECIAL. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON GRANDDAUGHTERS AND RUFFNER DESCENDANTS IN HISTORICAL MEETING.
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    Booker Taliaferro Washington on Education. Booker T. Washington stands out in American History as a school book black hero. Booker T. Washington s Autobiography.
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    Booker Taliaferro Washington on Education Booker T. Washington stands out in American History as a school book black hero. Some have even gone as far as to label Booker T. Washington a token Negro in the company of white heroes. This is because of his acceptance of segregation, his outward humility, and his opposition to black militancy, even more than because of his constructive achievements as an educator and race leader. His critics argue that his methods were too compromising and unheroic to be placed in the forefront as the spokesperson for black progress. Washington was best known as the Negro spokesperson who, in the Atlanta Compromise Address in 1895, accepted the Southern white demand for racial segregation. He was also the hero of this own success story, Up From Slavery . This autobiography described how he came up from poverty through self-help and the help of benevolent whites to be the foremost black educator and the successor of Frederick Douglass as a black leader and spokesman. Regardless of the position one chooses to take on Washington, he meant many things to many people, and his ideas were critical to helping blacks establish a foundation for progress here in the United States. "While I have never wished to underestimate the awakening power of purely mental training, I believe that this visible, tangible contact with nature gave me inspirations and ambitions which could not have come in any other way. I favor the most thorough mental training and the highest development of mind, but I want to see these linked with the common things of the universal life about our doors."

    10. Lesson Plan - Booker T. Washington
    Booker T. Washington Social Studies Unit written by Emmaly Ward. Background Booker T. Washington was born about five years before the Civil War began.
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    Booker T. Washington was born about five years before the Civil War
    began. By the end of the 19th century, he was one of the best-known men
    (black or white) in America.
    Booker was born into slavery. The cabin where Booker was born, was
    also the plantations kitchen. His mother was the cook. Cooking back then was not as easy as it is now. Cooking was done on a fireplace. Booker would gather the wood for the fire. Sometimes Booker's mother would give her children part of a chicken that was cooked for the slave owners. Most of the time Booker would eat a potato or a cup of milk. The living conditions were also very different. The cabin had no glass for the windows and there were holes in the walls. Booker and the others slept on a dirt floor, on bundles of rags. Booker had many different jobs to do on the plantation. He would carry water out to the workers in the field, take corn to the mill, and

    11. Booker Taliaferro Washington
    Booker T. Washington. April 5, 1856 November 14, 1915. Source Denslow; The Booker T. Washington Papers, Louis R. Harlen, et al ed. vol. 9, 1906-1908. p. xxiv.
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    MASONIC BIOGRAPHIES FAMOUS FREEMASONS Booker T. Washington April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915 Booker Taliaferro Washington, a distinguished American educator, was born a slave at Hale's Ford, Virginia. In 1881 he became the head of an institution at Tuskegee, Alabama, since incorporated as the Tuskeegee Normal and Industrial Institute, of which he was president until his death on November 14, 1915. Author of Up from Slavery in 1901, he was viewed as a spokesman for USA blacks in the latter 19th century. While Denslow claims Washington was made a mason "at sight" by the Grand Master of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts and as a resident of Alabama did not affiliate with a lodge in this jurisdiction, Harlan claims otherwise: "Washington's continued efforts to control black public life were manifested in this period by his private efforts to control the actions of two fraternal orders of which he was not a member. He was successful in keeping one of his supporters as editor of the Odd Fellows' Journal, but after heated debate the Prince Hall Masons withdrew their invitation to Washington to be the orator on the occasion of their centennial celebration." Made a Mason at sight: Massachusetts

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    BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. The Library. WORKS BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Up From Slavery (Tuskegee Institute Press, 1901). AL. Burt Co. BW317.
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    The following is a list of books and articles by and about Carter G. Woodson which can be found at the West Virginia State Archives Library. WORKS BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Up From Slavery (Tuskegee Institute Press, 1901). AL. Burt Co.
    The Future of The American Negro (Boston, Small, Maynard and Company, 1899).
    A New Negro For A New Century (Arro Press, 1969). Reprint of the 1900 edition.
    The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in Europe (Double, Page Company, 1912).
    Tuskegee: Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements D. Appleton and Company, 1905).
    Working With Hands...Covering The Author's Experience in Industrial Training at Tuskegee (Doubleday, Page and Company, 1904).
    The Story of The Negro: The Rise of The Race From Slavery (Negro Universities Press, 1969). Reprint at the 1908-09/edition.
    The Story of My Life and Work (Negro Universities Press, printed 1900 edition, 1969).
    B W317A SUGGESTED READINGS Mathews, Basil Joseph. Booker T. Washington: Educator and Interracial Interpreter (Harvard University Press, 1948).

    13. Booker T. Washington National Monument (National Park Service)
    This National Park Service official website acts as a virtual visitor's center, offering history, park information, an indepth section, and a store. Also a link to the National Park Foundation's (NPF) African American Experience Fund.
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    The main entrance road and parking lot are closed due to construction. Visitors will be able to enter the park using a temporary entrance road. Signs directing visitors to this temporary entrance road will be posted along Virginia Route 122. A parking area is available near the visitor center. The construction will last until mid-July.
    On April 5, 1856, a child who later called himself Booker T. Washington, was born in slavery on this 207-acre tobacco farm. The realities of life as a slave in piedmont Virginia, the quest by African Americans for education and equality, and the post-war struggle over political participation all shaped the options and choices of Booker T. Washington. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881 and later became an important and controversial leader of his race at a time when increasing racism in the United States made it necessary for African Americans to adjust themselves to a new era of legalized oppression. Visitors are invited to step back in time and experience firsthand the life and landscape of people who lived in an era when slavery was part of the fabric of American life. Home Accessibility Activities Education Programs ... Special Events Designation National Monument - April 2, 1956

    14. Booker T. Washington Biography
    UP FROM SLAVERY. booker T. washington recalled his childhood in his autobiography, Up From Slavery. He was born in 1856 on the Burroughs tobacco farm which, despite its small size, he always referred
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    Booker T. Washington recalled his childhood in his autobiography, Up From Slavery . He was born in 1856 on the Burroughs tobacco farm which, despite its small size, he always referred to as a "plantation." His mother was a cook, his father a white man from a nearby farm. "The early years of my life, which were spent in the little cabin," he wrote, "were not very different from those of other slaves." He went to school in Franklin County - not as a student, but to carry books for one of James Burroughs's daughters. It was illegal to educate slaves. "I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study would be about the same as getting into paradise," he wrote. In April 1865 the Emancipation Proclamation was read to joyful slaves in front of the Burroughs home. Booker's family soon left to join his stepfather in Malden, West Virginia. The young boy took a job in a salt mine that began at 4 a.m. so he could attend school later in the day. Within a few years, Booker was taken in as a houseboy by a wealthy towns-woman who further encouraged his longing to learn. At age 16, he walked much of the 500 miles back to Virginia to enroll in a new school for black students. He knew that even poor students could get an education at Hampton Institute, paying their way by working. The head teacher was suspicious of his country ways and ragged clothes. She admitted him only after he had cleaned a room to her satisfaction. In one respect he had come full circle, back to earning his living by menial tasks. Yet his entrance to Hampton led him away from a life of forced labor for good. He became an instructor there. Later, as principal and guiding force behind Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which he founded in 1881, he became recognized as the nation's foremost black educator.

    15. Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915 Up From Slavery: An Autobiography.
    booker T. washington, 18561915 Educators United States Biography. Tuskegee Institute. washington, booker T., 1856-1915.
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    Up from Slavery: An Autobiography.
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    Born into slavery, washington dedicated himself to education, became a teacher, then founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1881.
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    Lecturer, Civil Rights/Human Rights Activist, Educational Administrator, Professor, Organization Executive/Founder, Author/Poet Booker T. Washington was born a slave in Hale's Ford, Virginia, reportedly on April 5, 1856. After emancipation, his family was so poverty stricken that he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines beginning at age nine. Always an intelligent and curious child, he yearned for an education and was frustrated when he could not receive good schooling locally. When he was 16 his parents allowed him to quit work to go to school. They had no money to help him, so he walked 200 miles to attend the Hampton Institute in Virginia and paid his tuition and board there by working as the janitor. Dedicating himself to the idea that education would raise his people to equality in this country, Washington became a teacher. He first taught in his home town, then at the Hampton Institute, and then in 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. As head of the Institute, he traveled the country unceasingly to raise funds from blacks and whites both; soon he became a well-known speaker.

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    Authors Nonfiction booker T. washington. The outside world does not know, neither booker T. washington. booker T. washington. ( washington, booker Taliaferro) 18561915, American
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    18. Booker T. Washington And Character Education By Sanderson Beck
    BECK index. booker T. washington and Character Education. at Tuskegee Institute 18811915. by Sanderson Beck. Setting an example Personal Success Story. The Moral Value of Work. Religious and Spiritual Education. Born a slave, booker T. Born a slave, booker T. washington rose to become the commonly recognized leader of the Negro race in
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    Religious and Spiritual Education
    Born a slave, Booker T. Washington rose to become the commonly recognized leader of the Negro race in America. Although he continually strove to be successful and to show other black men and women how they too could raise themselves, his leadership became controversial, and his critics ironically accused him of keeping the Negro down and in his place. Washington's method of uplifting was education in a harmonious trinity of the head, the hand, and the heart. From his founding of Tuskegee Institute in 1881 to his death in 1915 Booker T. Washington exerted a tremendous influence on the consciousness of his people. W. E. B. Du Bois with his concept of developing the "talented-tenth" into leaders through liberal education represented those who felt that Washington placed too much emphasis on industrial education. However, Washington's own Christian character and his education of the heart can give us added insight and perspective into the man and his approach.
    Setting an example: Personal Success Story
    For the first nine years of his life until 1865 when the close of the Civil War emancipated the boy Booker and the remainder of his race, he like many other Americans of dark skin had been considered a piece of property on a Southern plantation. Any education extraneous to their enforced labor had been forbidden to most Negroes in the South. By 1895 however, in his historic Atlanta Exposition Address, Washington was to say:

    19. African American Odyssey: The Booker T. Washington Era (Part 1)
    The booker T. washington Era. Part 1 African American Soldiers Education, Economic and Social Progress Part 2. (612). booker T. washingtonUp From Slavery.
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    The 1870s to the start of World War I, the period when African American educator Booker T. Washington was gaining prominence, was also a difficult time for African Americans. The vote proved elusive and civil rights began to vanish through court action. Lynching, racial violence, and slavery's twin children peonage and sharecropping arose as deadly quagmires on the path to full citizenship. After Reconstruction ended in 1877, the federal government virtually turned a deaf ear to the voice of the African American populace. Yet in this era blacks were educated in unprecedented numbers, hundreds received degrees from institutions of higher learning, and a few, like W.E.B. DuBois and Carter G. Woodson, went on for the doctorate. While only a small percentage of the black population had been literate at the close of the Civil War, by the turn of the twentieth century, the majority of all African Americans were literate. The Library of Congress houses the papers of three presidents of Tuskegee Institute: Booker T. Washington, Robert Russa Moton, and Frederick Douglass Patterson, and other important manuscripts and photographs relating to the establishment, operations, aspirations, and success of historically black colleges and universities.

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    Nov. 20, 1998 The Booker T. Washington Alternative School is designed to address behaviors that interfere with the learning style of classified students in our secondary school programs (grades 6-12). The educational program follows the curriculum of the grade in which the student is assigned. The students assigned to our program will progress through a school wide behavior management system and be provided an opportunity to achieve their own individual goals. Each classified student's individualized education program (I.E.P.) outlines the educational needs of the student. The child study team, related and supportive services (Re: guidance, student assistance, and speech) are readily available. When the student achieves in the behavioral management program they are provided an opportunity to return to their respective school. The alternative education program consists of four (4) classrooms. Each classroom provides an academic program reflective of the grade level of the students assigned to that classroom.

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