April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915
Personal Data
Born: April 5, 1856, Hale's Ford in Franklin County, VA, a slave on a tobacco farm
Died: November 14, 1915 Tuskegee, AL
Buried: Tuskegee University Campus
Married: Fanny Norton Smith Washington August 12, 1882
Olivia Davidson Washington August 11, 1886
Margaret Murray Washington
Children: Portia M. Washington, Booker T. Washington Jr., and Ernest Davidson Washington
Education
1875 Hampton Agricultural Institute, Hampton, VA
1879 Wayland Seminary, Washington, DC (for 6 months)
Employment
1876-1878 Teacher, Malden, WV
1879-1880 Night teacher and supervisor of the Kiowa
1881 Teacher for African Americans at Tuskegee, AL
Awards and Honors
Honorary degrees from Harvard University in 1896
Honorary degrees from Dartmouth College in 1901
The Wright Award is presented in his honor.
Membership-Professional Organizations
Publications
1890 Daily Resolves. Ernest Nister.
1895 The Atlanta Compromise. In Cotton States and International Exposition, September (pp. 1856-1901).
1900 Sowing and Reaping. LC Page & Company.Washington, B. T.
1900 The future of the American Negro. Small, Maynard.
1907 The Negro in business. Hertel, Jenkins.
1911 My larger education: Being chapters from my experience. Doubleday, Page.
1986 Up from slavery. Penguin. (reprint)
2007 The story of my life and work. Cosimo. (reprint)
2011 The story of the Negro. University of Pennsylvania Press. (reprint)
2012 Character building. Transaction Publishers. (reprint)
Professional Interest Areas
Discrimination toward African Americans
Major Contributions to Adult Education
Help build up the Tuskegee Institute, which is Tuskegee University now.
Promoted Higher Vocational education for minorities
Author, educator, orator, and philanthropist.
Additional Resources
Articles
Brundage, W. F. (Ed.). (2003). Booker T. Washington and black progress: Up from slavery 100 Years later. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
Photo Gallery
Video/Audio PODCOAST
Presentations
Books
Carroll, R. (2013). Uncle Tom or New Negro?: African Americans Reflect on Booker T. Washington and UP FROM SLAVERY 100 Years Later. Random House LLC.
Harlan, L. R. (1972). Booker T. Washington: The making of a Black leader, 1856-1901 (Vol. 1). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Harlan, L. R. (1983). Booker T. Washington (pp. 205-06). New York, NY:
West, M. R. (2006). The education of Booker T. Washington: American democracy and the idea of race relations. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Interesting Facts
Born a slave, his father was a white plantation owner he never met.
He was the first African-American to receive an honorary degree from Harvard.
First African American to have dinner in the White House in 1901.
His first and second wives died within four years after marrying Washington.
References
http://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/tuskegee/btwuniv.htm
Booker Taliaferro Washington. (2014). The Biography.com website. Retrieved from http://www.biography.com/people/booker-t-washington-9524663
Booker T. Washington [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hsd55AK53U
Wells, J. Booker T. Washington (1856–1915). (2013, December 23). In Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved from http://www.EncyclopediaVirginia.org/Washington_Booker_T_1856-1915.
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