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List Of Books Written By Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite#United States, black elite. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era, disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction era, Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Washington was a key proponent of African-American businesses and one of the founders of the National Negro Business League. His base was the Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Institute, a normal school, later a historically black college in Tuskegee, Alabama, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hale's Ford, Virginia
Hale's Ford is a small unincorporated community located in the northeastern corner of Franklin County, Virginia about from Roanoke. It is most notable as the location of the Burroughs Farm, the tobacco plantation where the famed educator and orator Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856. His mother Jane was an enslaved black woman held by the Burroughs and his father was a white planter who lived nearby. After the American Civil War ended, Jane took her children to West Virginia to rejoin her husband, who had been sold there as a slave before the war. The Booker T. Washington National Monument, established in 1956, preserves portions of the tobacco plantation where Washington was born. It interprets his life as a national leader. Hale's Ford is also the site of one of Virginia's historic covered bridges and of the Hook–Powell–Moorman Farm, which is on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
