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Booker T. Washington
American educator, author, orator and adviser (–)
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, &#;&#; November 14, ) was an American educator, author, and orator. Between and , Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.
Born into slavery on April 5, , in Hale's Ford, Virginia, Washington was freed when U.S. troops reached the area during the Civil War. As a young man, Booker T. Washington worked his way through Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and attended college at Wayland Seminary. In , he was named as the first leader of the new Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, an institute for black higher education. He expanded the college, enlisting students in construction of buildings. Work at the college was considered fundamental to students' larger education. He attained national prominence for his Atlanta Address of , which attracted the attention of politicians and the public. Washington pla
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Background and Boyhood
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Dr. Booker Taliaferro Washington
Founding Prinicipal and First President of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
(now Tuskegee University)
Term in Office:
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His Early Years
Born April 5, , in Franklin County, Virginia, Booker Taliaferro was the son of an unknown White man and Jane, an enslaved cook of James Burroughs, a small planter.
Jane named her son Booker Taliaferro but later dropped the second name. Booker gave himself the surname "Washington" when he first enrolled in school. Sometime after Booker's birth, his mother was married to Washington Ferguson, a slave. A daughter, Amanda, was born to this marriage. James, Booker's younger half-brother, was adopted. Booker's elder brother, John, was also the son of a White man.
Booker spent his first nine years as a slave on the Burroughs farm. In , his mother took her children to Malden, West Virginia, to join her husband, who had gone there earlier and found work in the salt mines. At age nine, Booker was pu