| Birth: | Apr. 5, 1856 | | Death: | Nov. 14, 1915 | 
Educator and social reformer. Booker Taliaferro Washington, born a slave on the James Burroughs's Plantation in Hale's Ford, Franklin County, Virginia. Booker was 9 years old when slavery was abolished in Virginia. He attended and graduated from Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in 1875. In 1881 he was selected to head Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which is now Tuskegee University. Booker believed in hard work, self-education and economic independence. He talks about his childhood in his biography "Up From Slavery", which was published in 1901. April 7, 1940, he was the first African American placed on a United States postage stamp. (bio by: Babe)
Search Amazon for Booker T. Washington | | | Burial:
Tuskegee University Campus Cemetery
Tuskegee
Macon County
Alabama, USA |
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Record added: Jan 01, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 1073 |
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