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    SIEVERS BLACK AMERICANS OF ACHIEVEMENT BOOKER T WASHINGTON Booker T Washington was born on April 5‚ 1856 in Hale’s Ford‚ Virginia. Booker was the first male person to become a male housekeeper. Booker was the last generation of Black American leaders born into slavery. Booker T Washington parents are (mother) Jane Ferguson and (father) Washington Ferguson. His mother was a slave so while Booker worked in the house his mother had to work outside. When Booker was a little boy he used to see the

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    contrasting Washington and Du Bois’s philosophy‚ professor Lewis states: "Well‚ for African-Americans‚ I think one has to say that Booker Washington served two masters."3 Many people believed that Washington did in fact serve two masters. While he did try to create ways to give African Americans a better life‚ he also compromised greatly by accepting mistreatment and

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    local government. Such laws segregated african americans from whites‚ and restricted their right to vote and prevented them from gaining their constitutional rights. Booker T Washington was a strong minded African American man who believed in the rights of all African Americans. He was born in Virginia on April 5‚ 1856. Booker T washington was influential to the nation due to both his knowledge and thinking because he fought for the equality of African Americans by asking blacks to accept that they were

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    Booker T. Washington | Booker T Washington by: Alan Schroeder | Allysia Wesley‚ 3/18/2013 | English Honors Project Marking Period 3 – Due March 20th Booker T. Washington was important to me because he believed in going to school. He was born a slave and slaves weren’t allowed to go to school. Booker was 10 when the slaves were freed. He eventually left his family and traveled to Hampton Institute in Virginia and became the best student. When a new school opened in Alabama Booker became the

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    By this definition‚ the lives of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington provide two of the most clear examples of what it is to be free. Douglass and Washington both wrote autobiographies accounting for their lives during and after their emancipation from slavery. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚ published in 1845‚ delves deep into the first twenty-three years of Douglass’ life‚ sparing no gory details about slave treatment. Born in 1818 on a plantation in Tuckahoe‚ Maryland

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    September 2012 Comparative Essay BOOKER T. WASHINGTON & W.E.B. DUBOIS Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois were two men that drastically altered the face of Civil Rights. Both had a strong hand in education and were dynamic figures of the Progressive Age. While they both were figure heads in the social improvements in African American lives‚ their strategies of achieving change were very different. The two men had very different upbringings. Washington was born as a slave in Virginia

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    Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was one of the most influential (and controversial) African Americans in history. Raised the son of a slave mother‚ Washington was self-motivated and committed to his own education from a young age. The tumultuous time in America’s history during which he lived afforded him new freedoms that came from Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and the eventual success of the North in the Civil War. He took the first opportunity to attend a formal school‚

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    The different methods Booker Taliaferro Washington and William Edward Burghardt Du Bois used to try and obtain racial equality reminds me of the Aesop’s Fable - The Hare and the Tortoise: A hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise‚ who replied‚ laughing: "Though you be swift as the wind‚ I will beat you in a race." The Hare‚ believing his assertion to be simply impossible‚ assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal.

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    Booker T Washington was an educator born April 5‚ 1865. He was an author and wrote 50 books. He was born in Hale’s Ford Virginia. He died November 14‚ 1915. Booker was born into slavery in Virginia. His mother worked as a cook for the plantation owner and his father was a white man that no one knew. They lived in a one room log cabin. At a young age he was working and carrying 100 pound sacks of grain to the mill. Washington was so fascinated by learning and school. When he saw a schoolhouse near

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    Booker T. Washington Presented By: Jeremy A. Clements Presented To: Ms. Alexander Date: February 21‚ 2011 Course: English 1 Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington was born on plantation in Franklin Country‚ Virginia‚ on April 5‚ 1856. After the Civil War‚ his families moved to Malden‚ West Virginia‚ were Booker T. Washington worked in the coal mines and salt Furnaces‚ and a house servant. Washington mom and he were determined for him to go to school. During four years‚

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