BOOKER T WASHINGTON 1856 1915 EDUCATOR AND CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER WASHINGTON BOOKER T 1856 1915 EDUCATION CIVIL RIGHTS/EQUALITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AFRICAN AMERICANS AMERICAN CULTURE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY BOOKER WASHINGTON BOOKER T WASHINGTON WAS BORN INTO SLAVERY ON A SMALL PLANTATION IN FRANKLIN COUNTY VIRGINIA AFTER SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED WASHINGTON STUDIED AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE IN VIRGINIA WORKING AS A JANITOR TO PAY EXPENSES HE GRADUATED WITH HONORS AND RETURNED HOME TO TEACH SCHOOL FROM 1875 TO 1877 IN 1879 WASHINGTON RETURNED TO HAMPTON INSTITUTE TO TEACH IN A PROGRAM FOR AMERICAN INDIANS IN 1881 HE WAS CHOSEN TO ORGANIZE A SCHOOL AT TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE IN ALABAMA WHICH WASHINGTON BUILT INTO A MAJOR JOB TRAINING SCHOOL FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS WASHINGTON LECTURED AND WROTE WIDELY ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS HE BELIEVED IN INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL TRAINING RATHER THAN LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS MANY OTHER AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERS MOST NOTABLY W E B DU BOIS AND IDA B WELLS OPPOSED WASHINGTON'S VIEWS WASHINGTON FOUNDED THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE AND SERVED AS ITS FIRST PRESIDENT HE ALSO WROTE UP FROM SLAVERY WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN 1901
