booker t. washington

     

In 1948 a replica of the log cabin in which this black educator was born was constructed at his memorial

Trivia about booker t. washington

  • Louis Harlan's biography of this Tuskegee educator won a 1984 Pulitzer Prize
  • This black educator's autobiography, "Up From Slavery", was published in 1901
  • At age 15, Martin graduated from a high school named for this first head of Tuskegee Institute
  • 1901:"Up from Slavery"
  • "I cannot offer you money, position or fame", he said when he offered George Washington Carver a job at Tuskegee
  • "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him" is attributed to this "Up from Slavery" author born in Virginia
  • This educator's famous middle initial stood for Taliaferro
  • When Tuskeegee opened its doors in 1881, he was the school's only teacher
  • At his death in 1915, this educator was buried on the campus of his Tuskegee institute
  • In an 1895 speech he accepted some segregation in his "Atlanta Compromise"
  • "From Slave Cabin to Hall of Fame" appeared on a half-dollar memorial to this black educator
  • This educator built the Tuskegee Institute from a student body of 40 in 1881 to 1500 by 1915
  • Though it caused much indignation in the South, Teddy Roosevelt invited this educator to the White House
  • Freed from slavery at age 9, this future educator worked in a coal mine while attending school
  • He was the first African American on a U.S. coin; the reverse of his half dollar read, "from slave cabin to hall of fame"

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