Booker T. Washington

Booker Taliferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 15, 1915) was an African American educator and author. He was born into slavery at the community of Hale's Ford in Franklin County, Virginia. After he and his mother were freed, as a young man he made his way east from West Virginia (where she had obtained work) to obtain schooling at Hampton in eastern Virginia at a school established to train teachers.

Education

After the American Civil War, when the Emancipation Proclamation was enforced, Booker T. Washington worked with his mother Jane as a salt-packer in a West Virginia facility, and, when he could, attended school.

Related Topics:
American Civil War - Emancipation Proclamation - West Virginia

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At 16, Washington worked odd jobs to make his way across Virginia to reach Elizabeth City County near Hampton Roads where he enrolled at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University), in Hampton, Virginia. It was a school founded for the purpose of training black teachers and had been funded by individuals such as William Jackson Palmer, a Quaker, among others. From 1878 to 1879 he attended Wayland Seminary in Washington, D.C.

Related Topics:
Elizabeth City County - Hampton Roads - Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute - Hampton University - Hampton, Virginia - William Jackson Palmer - Quaker - 1878 - 1879 - Washington - D.C.

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