American educator born into slavery who trained at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute before founding Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881. He built its academic and vocational curriculum around self-built infrastructure and practical trades, and became, through his writing and public speaking, the most prominent African American leader of his era.
Facts
BirthplaceHale's Ford, Franklin County, Virginia 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionFounded and led the Tuskegee Institute, building an industrial and vocational curriculum through which formerly enslaved and working-class Black Americans could gain economic self-sufficiency. 1 Notable Work Connections
Associated With
W.E.B. Du Bois, Thinkers Du Bois and Washington were the leading rival voices on Black education in the early twentieth century.
Institutions Founded
Washington was the founding principal; the Alabama legislature provided the legal charter.
Source Tuskegee University Official Site
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Sources
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
Tuskegee University Official Site
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Dr. Booker T. Washington the first teacher and Founding Principal
Booker T. Washington (Wikipedia)
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In 1881, he was named as the first leader of the new Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, an institute for black higher education.
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