![]() Washington walked most of the 500-mile trip. Arriving with 50 cents in his pocket, he worked as a janitor to scrape by while in school. What strikes a later generation about Washington is. After emancipation, he lived for a time in West Virginia. Washington, the con- servative black leader of the early twentieth century. "The small amount of money that I had earned had been consumed by my stepfather.with the exception of a very few dollars.The distance from Malden to Hampton is about five hundred began to grow painfully evident that I did not have enough money to pay my fare." Washington (18561915) was born enslaved on April 5, 1856, in Franklin County, Virginia. He was also considered the most influential black educator of the late 19th and early. He founded the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. Washington was the most famous black man in America between 18. Booker Taliaferro Washington was born in Hales Ford. Booker Washington was complex, wily, and awesomely accomplished at a time when the constraints on what most black Americans were allowed to accomplish were horrendous. Washington was born into slavery in 1856 on a small farm in Virginia. position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome Booker T. ![]() Washington began saving so he could attend the Hampton Institute. One of the foremost black educators of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Booker T. This was the first time I had ever heard anything about any kind of school or college that was more pretentious than the little colored school in our town." - Washington, Up From Slavery "One day, while at work in the coal mine, I happened to overhear two miners talking about a great school for coloured people somewhere in Virginia. After the Civil War, his stepfather forced him to work in a salt furnace, a coal mine, and a white household, and he struggled to get any education. ![]() Washington was born into slavery in Virginia in 1856. ![]()
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