3.A LITTLE HISTORY

The plantation cabin in Virginia where Washington was raised

Booker T. Washington was born the "son of a slave"("Washington...") woman, "Jane Ferguson"(AOL.), and a white man, whom he never knew, on a plantation in Franklin, Virginia on April 5, 1856. All of his childhood life he "lived in poverty"(AOL.) and he began working at "nine"(AOL.) years old to help his family with financial matters for lack of a father. Although his poorness left him with little opportunity, Washington was a very "self-motivated"(Reeser) individual and committed himself to an education. At the age of "sixteen"(AOL.) Washington was able to enter the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute"(AOL.), which he had often heard about in the "coal mines"("Washington...") where he worked as a boy, and took a job as a "janitor"(AOL.) to assist in the paying of his education there. Later, he was offered a position as a teacher at the same institute.

2.OVERVIEW

4.TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE

5.NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS L...

6.NAACP

7.SUMMARY

8.WORKS CITED AND REVIEW

9. ANALYSIS

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