BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington

Thesis Statement

This paper brings together wonderful information about important man in African American history. It gives his life story his background and what he done or accomplished that has made a change in history.

Booker Washington was born in one of the plantations in Virginia, April 5, 1856. He was the son of a black slave woman and an unknown white man. His mother worked as a cook in the house of the plantation owner. She cooked for the family plantation. As a child, like other slaves, had no family, and after the Civil War years 1861-1865. In the U.S., which brought the liberation of black slaves, Booker chose the name of the first President George Washington.

After Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, ending the exploitation of blacks and giving them freedom from their former masters, the mother of Booker left the plantation. Together with her children she moved to the city of Malden, West Virginia, near the capital of Charleston. There's little Booker learned to read independently, and later graduated from Sunday school, open to children of Negroes(Bauerlein, Booker, 2004).

That though is to support his family and help my mother in the mornings before school; he worked, throwing coal in stokehold. He worked at the salt works, in coal mines, but continued to educate ourselves.

In 1872, at seventeen, he entered the Hampton Agricultural Institute for universal students with black skin in Virginia, where blacks enrolled in the program an average Sunday school. There he studied for three years. After finishing it, became a teacher in black schools of the South, and even a short time worked as the secretary general of Samuel Armstrong, rector of Hampton Institute.

Then Booker Washington moved to Washington, where he continued his education. In 1879, received his teacher and began teaching at Hampton Institute, which was adopted by the first batch of students with the Indians.

Booker Washington has written several books. The most famous is called "Awake from slavery."

Booker Washington was a great orator, one of the foremost educators and advocates for education of Negroes. In September 1895 at the opening of trade and industrial exhibitions in the city of Atlanta, Georgia delivered a speech outlining his socio-political concept, consisting of racial and class world and the close cooperation of white and colored people of the United States. He became the first American black man, speaking in front of white audiences.

In his speech, Booker Washington asked for equality only in two areas: access to employment and entrepreneurship. His speech was 10 minutes shaped racial politics in the south and made the Booker T. Washington leader of the Negro people.

Booker Washington was able to attract the attention of listeners, and soon his public appearances began to bring tangible benefits for the institution Tuskidzhi.

President Theodore Roosevelt had consulted with him about appointments to public positions of black and even white Southerners (Bauerlein, Booker, 2004).

In 1896, Booker made a trip to Europe (Antwerp, The Hague, Paris and London). During the trip, Washington met with ...