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Booker Taliaferro Washington
By: Zyaun Jones
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All About BookerThis will tell you the history of famous
African American Booker T. Washington
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Atlanta
• Booker T. Washington grew up in Atlanta, Georgia
• With Mom and Dad
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Booker “T” Washington
• The T in his name stands for Taliaferro.
• Booker hated his middle name so when the teacher asked him to write his FULL name he always put T.
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Cotton Exposition
• The Cotton Exposition was a huge economic fair held by Southern White Business men.
• He was told to speak for the “negro” or blacks or African American.
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Disagree
• He wrote a book called Up From Slavery.
• Black disagreed about what he wrote in his book about slavery.
• He wrote about how slavery and Ku Klux Klan was happening in his town he didn’t really show emotion, Blacks hated that.
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Education
• His education did not last long.
• He was educated for a few months and that’s it!
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Five Dollars
• He was paid at his job $5 a day
• He did not think this was fair because the whites were paid lots more and got fair treatment.
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General Lewis Ruffner
• He was his staff member at his school.
• His school was treated fairly they got fairly good information and resources.
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Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
• When he was a teenager this school for blacks opened up he went to finish off his education.
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Inspiration
• He inspired his school to love what they have.
• This was not a fair law, but he said for get it these are our kids lets do what's write.
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Jail
• He hated seeing blacks getting pushed to jail.
• He thought of white people as big BULLIES!
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Ku Klux Klan
• The KKK were big bullies who hated blacks.
• They attacked his hometown burning down houses and harming people.
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Leadership
• He had lots of leadership for his school and hometown.
• He leaded his school in his hometown to love life even with obstacles.
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Mills
• His job was to take water to the mills once a week every week.
• He loved his home chores.
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November
• Finally Booker died.
• Booker died in November of 1915
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Old Spiritual
• His famous quote that gave him his nickname.
• “ Let the life I lived speak for me.”
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Portia
• When he got married he had a daughter.
• He named his daughter Portia.
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Quality
• He was strong against what's write.
• He had a strong heart.
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Remarkable Figure• His most common name after his death,
when people see his statue or here his name.
• “Remarkable Figure” said a black slave he is a strong man.
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Souls for Black Folks
• He wrote another book about how to live life with slavery.
• This is his second autobiography about him and dealing with slavery.
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Tuskegee Institute
• His school that he partially owned for blacks where he taught his students to love life.
• His school was loved by blacks and had white staff members.
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Up From Slavery
• He loved to write books about his life and his feeling about slavery.
• In his autobiography he wrote his thoughts on slavery, but not all colored people agreed with his thoughts.
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Virginia
• His hometown in Atlanta wasn’t the only place he lived.
• He lived in Virginia for a little of his life.
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Wizard of Tuskegee
• His most common nickname after his death remembered by family and friends.
• He was as wise as a wizard and took leadership in his town.
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XXXVllll
• At the age of thirty-nine he was an Alabama educator.
• He was at Tuskegee Institute.
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Yankee Staff
• His school staff was a Yankee family.
• His male staff member Lewis Ruffner and his wife.
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Zest
• Booker was really enthusiastic about life.
• He wasn’t upset about the problems he went through he just kept going forward.
• He thought about the positive thing that would overcome the negative things.
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Conclusion• Booker was a legend in the civil rights
movement. He will never be forgotten because of how he helped blacks and whites come together as a team. He was ONE of MANY other legends.
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Bibliography
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/636363/Booker-T-Washington
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/washington_bhtm
Altman, Susan Extraordinary African-American from Colonial to Contemporary Times.Children’s Press, New York, 1989
McKissasck, Fred and Patricia The Story of Booker T. Washington Children’s Press, Chicago, 1991