Booker Taliaferro Washington

By: Zyaun Jones

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All About BookerThis will tell you the history of famous

African American Booker T. Washington

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Atlanta

• Booker T. Washington grew up in Atlanta, Georgia

• With Mom and Dad

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Booker “T” Washington

• The T in his name stands for Taliaferro.

• Booker hated his middle name so when the teacher asked him to write his FULL name he always put T.

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Cotton Exposition

• The Cotton Exposition was a huge economic fair held by Southern White Business men.

• He was told to speak for the “negro” or blacks or African American.

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Disagree

• He wrote a book called Up From Slavery.

• Black disagreed about what he wrote in his book about slavery.

• He wrote about how slavery and Ku Klux Klan was happening in his town he didn’t really show emotion, Blacks hated that.

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Education

• His education did not last long.

• He was educated for a few months and that’s it!

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Five Dollars

• He was paid at his job $5 a day

• He did not think this was fair because the whites were paid lots more and got fair treatment.

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General Lewis Ruffner

• He was his staff member at his school.

• His school was treated fairly they got fairly good information and resources.

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Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute

• When he was a teenager this school for blacks opened up he went to finish off his education.

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Inspiration

• He inspired his school to love what they have.

• This was not a fair law, but he said for get it these are our kids lets do what's write.

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Jail

• He hated seeing blacks getting pushed to jail.

• He thought of white people as big BULLIES!

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Ku Klux Klan

• The KKK were big bullies who hated blacks.

• They attacked his hometown burning down houses and harming people.

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Leadership

• He had lots of leadership for his school and hometown.

• He leaded his school in his hometown to love life even with obstacles.

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Mills

• His job was to take water to the mills once a week every week.

• He loved his home chores.

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November

• Finally Booker died.

• Booker died in November of 1915

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Old Spiritual

• His famous quote that gave him his nickname.

• “ Let the life I lived speak for me.”

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Portia

• When he got married he had a daughter.

• He named his daughter Portia.

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Quality

• He was strong against what's write.

• He had a strong heart.

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Remarkable Figure• His most common name after his death,

when people see his statue or here his name.

• “Remarkable Figure” said a black slave he is a strong man.

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Souls for Black Folks

• He wrote another book about how to live life with slavery.

• This is his second autobiography about him and dealing with slavery.

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Tuskegee Institute

• His school that he partially owned for blacks where he taught his students to love life.

• His school was loved by blacks and had white staff members.

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Up From Slavery

• He loved to write books about his life and his feeling about slavery.

• In his autobiography he wrote his thoughts on slavery, but not all colored people agreed with his thoughts.

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Virginia

• His hometown in Atlanta wasn’t the only place he lived.

• He lived in Virginia for a little of his life.

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Wizard of Tuskegee

• His most common nickname after his death remembered by family and friends.

• He was as wise as a wizard and took leadership in his town.

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XXXVllll

• At the age of thirty-nine he was an Alabama educator.

• He was at Tuskegee Institute.

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Yankee Staff

• His school staff was a Yankee family.

• His male staff member Lewis Ruffner and his wife.

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Zest

• Booker was really enthusiastic about life.

• He wasn’t upset about the problems he went through he just kept going forward.

• He thought about the positive thing that would overcome the negative things.

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Conclusion• Booker was a legend in the civil rights

movement. He will never be forgotten because of how he helped blacks and whites come together as a team. He was ONE of MANY other legends.

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Bibliography

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/636363/Booker-T-Washington

http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/washington_bhtm

Altman, Susan Extraordinary African-American from Colonial to Contemporary Times.Children’s Press, New York, 1989

McKissasck, Fred and Patricia The Story of Booker T. Washington Children’s Press, Chicago, 1991