Booker T Washington

Where/when was Washington born, who was his parents?

• 1865, S. Virgina

• Mother- known her (slave)

• Father- didn’t know him (plantation owner)

What school did Washington fight to get to?

Hampton Institute School

How did Washington get to Hampton?

• traded work for tuition (cleaning/cooking)

• when he ran out of money for transportation/hotels he walked & slept under sidewalks the rest of the way

How did the School registor first think of Washington, & how was her mind changed?

• first impression — raggedy

• impressed her after cleaning a room → allowed for admission

Who was the school director of Hampton and what was his philosophy?

• Samuel Chapman Armstrong

• “Work transforms the soul”

What 2 majors where offered at Hampton?

• Mechanical Arts: service/repairs on steam engines

• Industrial Arts: scientific farming

What place was Washington offered a job at after graduation?

Tuskegee Insitute

How did the white community felt about Tuskegee Insitute?

They where hostile — though reconstruction was happening again

What where the school supplies like when the school (Tuskegee) first open

Low, not enough lab equipment/desks

How did Washington solve both problems of the white community and low school supplies?

Sold produce to the community

How was Washington progressive and conservative?

• progressive: believed all black men/women should go to college

• conservative: black men/women shouldn’t pursue medical, fine arts, or J.D. degrees

  • “White Americans wont accept”