Booker+T.+Washington

=Booker T. Washington By: LAFRANCE,TYLER =

====Born in April 5 1856 - Died in 1915    ==== Born a slave in Franklin County He never knew his white father ====<span style="COLOR: rgb(158,26,26)">One of his jobs as a boy was carrying sacks of corn to the mill    ==== <span style="COLOR: rgb(178,12,207)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(145,24,8)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(196,27,18); FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(143,10,10); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(158,26,26)">His owner was James Burroughs He was freed when he was eight years old He was called Booker by his <span style="COLOR: rgb(143,10,10); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(158,26,26)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(165,228,17)">teacher.All the other children gave a first and last name, so Booker chose to take the last name Washington.He later learned from his mother he did have a second name; Taliaferro. So he chose that as his middle name. He soon had to drop out of school He heard about the Hampton Institute in Virginia, a school for black boys and girls He got as far as Richmond and spent a <span style="COLOR: rgb(143,10,10); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(158,26,26)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(236,120,14)">few days there sleeping under a plank sidewalk at night His mother Jane died while he was at home for vacation during the summer After graduation he returned to his hometown, Malden, and became a teacher at the first school he ever attended ====<span style="COLOR: rgb(157,12,12); FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(178,12,207)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(143,10,10); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(158,26,26)">The state legislature would give $2000 a year for the school. He started having classes in an old church and a run-down building. <span style="COLOR: rgb(178,12,207)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(157,12,12); FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(143,10,10); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(158,26,26)">He <span style="COLOR: rgb(99,227,218)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(143,10,10); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(158,26,26)">was able to purchase farmland eventually totaling over 2,000 acres on which to build the school. <span style="COLOR: rgb(143,10,10); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(158,26,26)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(178,12,207)">First head of the Tuskegee Institute  <span style="COLOR: rgb(178,12,207)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(157,12,12); FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(99,227,218)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(143,10,10); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(158,26,26)">. He married Fannie Smith and they had a daughter, Portia Fannie passed away and did not get to see Portia grow up nor see the school succeed. All students at the school chopped trees, cleared land, made bricks, built furniture, and constructed buildings Booker married again, Olivia Davidson. <span style="COLOR: rgb(99,227,218)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(143,10,10); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(158,26,26)">   Washington was principal of Tuskegee Institute from 1881 until his death in 1915.==== Refrenses Title: Booker T. Washington: From Slave to Teacher Aurther: