From slave to Teacher
His Early life
Civil War
Malden, West Virginia (1886)
In Hampton Institute Booker graduated with honors in 1875
His later life
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute 1881
George Washington Carver
The “compromise” speech at the cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia (1895)
Honouring Booker
“I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study would be about the same as getting into paradise.” – Booker T. Washington
“He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry.”