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This 6 page report discusses the life, times, contemporaries, and accomplishments of Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915). He was fundamental in changing the perceptions of many (at least those whose vision was not clouded by racial prejudice) 19th century white and black Americans regarding the potential of “Negroes.” He was convinced that education and training was the best possible way for his people to lift themselves up and away from the degradation and poverty most of them had always known. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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properly! Introduction By any measure, Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) led an extraordinary life. Although he was the son of a slave, he also made truly remarkable contributions to American
life in terms of promoting the simple understanding that African Americans, the slaves and children of slaves, could and should be educated and that education was a way for people
to lift themselves up and away from the degradation and poverty most of them knew. He also changed the perceptions of many (at least those whose vision was not clouded
by racial prejudice) 19th century white and black Americans regarding the potential of "Negroes." Born in 1856 . . . As a child on a plantation in Virginia during
the Civil War, Washington gained firsthand knowledge of what a slaves life and fate was likely to be. In the opening lines of his autobiography, Up from Slavery, (published in
1902) Washington explains that: "My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings" (pp. 1). After the war, he and his family (his
mother, a brother, and a sister) moved to West Virginia. He explains that he knew nothing of his father and writes: "Whoever he was, I never heard of his taking
the least interest in me or providing for my rearing. But I do not find especial fault with him. He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the
Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time" (pp. 2). Having moved to West Virginia, he began a life that had to be nearly as back-breaking as that of
a slave as he worked in the coal mines and a salt furnace. From the time he was 16 until he was nearly 20, he attended school when he could
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