Booker T Washington

Booker spent his first nine years as a slave on the Burroughs farm

Between the ages of ten and twelve, he worked in a coal mine. He attended school while continuing to work in the mines

In 1872, at age sixteen, Booker T. Washington entered Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and graduated with honors

He established the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama in 1881

Booker t Washington represented blacks for the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta

The first time a black man dined in the White House with the President

Booker T Washington autobiographies

Booker T. Washington's educational and political philosophy in his celebrated work, Souls of Black Folk