by Margo McLoone
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Easy Reading
BOOKER .T. WASHINGTON
1856 - 1915
Booker T. Washington opened a school for blacks and taught them and raised money. He also spoke to big groups and told them the student’s needs.
Bookers mother was a slave and at age seven Booker cried water to the workers in the field.
Booker worked with his stepfather in a mine, a mine is a tunnel for people to dig up salt. He worked for five hours in the morning. He also went to school and then he went back for two more hours. When he was older he went to Hampton Institute and worked as a janitor to pay for school.
Booker finished school at Hampton in 1875. He worked at Hampton at night. Then he started a school in Tuskegee, Alabama because the children needed a teacher and a school. 400 students lived on campus.
Fannie Smith and Booker got married and had one girl. Fannie died in 1884. Then he got married to Olivia Davidson they had two boys. She died in 1889. Then he met Margaret Murray. He hired her to work for him. He liked her and they got married and they had no children.
Booker started the school on his beliefs. He thought both work and school.
Booker hired George Washington Harvard. Booker and George shared many ideas with each other.
W.E.B Du Bois didn’t like Bookers idea s. He thought that blacks and whites should have the same rights.
Booker thought African Americans should get well paying jobs. So he made a book called Up From Slavery. Booker T. Washington died in his home on November 14, 1915.
