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Booker T. Washington - College Essays

Booker T. Washington

was born on April 5,1856. Born a slave he rose to become the commonly recognized leader of the African American race in America. For the first nine years of his life until 1865 when the close of the Civil War eemancipated the boy Booker and the remainder of his race, he like many other Americans of dark skin had been considered a peice of property on a Southern plantation. Any formal education had been forbidden to most blacks in the South. By 1895 in his historic Atlanta Exposition Address, Washington said :
"Starting thirty years ago with ownership here and there in a few quilts and pumpkins and chickens, remember the inventions and productions of agricultural impliments, buggies, ...

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had to workin the mines until nine at night, but his intense desire to learn enabled him to master a Webster spelling book, and even led him to more ahead the hands of the clock at work so he could get to his night school by nine. While playing marbles with other boys, an old colored man told Booker about the meaning of Sunday school. He gave up his marble game for regular Sunday School attendanceand later became thee teacher and superintendent of the school where he had learned to read.
In 1881 Washington was selected to head a newly established normal school for blacks at Tuskegee.
The real key to Bookers' success was his spiritual and inner development. He began to love and understand the bible while at Hampton, and spent a year of study at Wayland Seminary where the "high Christian character of Dr. King" made a strong impression on him. " I thank God that I was led by the Spirit to accept Christ. I am glad I am a Christian and promise that as soon as I can, I will ...

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Added: 5/10/2007 11:32:25 AM
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