Booker Taliaferro Washington was a great Black-American who inspired lots of other Blacks to have individuality and to get an education while they had a chance. He was born on April 5, 1856 and died in 1915.  He was the advisor of three presidents and made many speeches across the U.S. and Europe. He had to overcome prejudice and equal rights. He was born as a slave and freed in 1863. This has made him very famous for overcoming all the difficulties he had.

I have researched Booker T. Washington and written a series of letters. Even though these events never happened the information about him is real.

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How To Be Booker T. Washington
 by Sam

Be born near Hales Ford, Virginia on April 5^th, 1856 as a slave
Don’t go to elementary school as a child
Have a White father who you barely know
Have a mother as a mulatto slave on a plantation
Learn quicker than others at school
Work earlier as a child in slavery
Work in salt furnaces and coal mines in Malden, West Virginia 
     while attending school part time
Be an educator
Develop the night school
Be a principal in Tuskegee, Alabama at Tuskegee Institute
Say tons of speeches in the U.S. and Europe
Publish tons of books   
Lose power to W.E.B. DuBois
Make a difference in the world

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Researched and posted March 2004

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