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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
ANGEL'S BIOGRAPHY “All About Me” Hello! My name is Angel and the things that most excite me are when I’m jumping rope and going outside with my friends. It interests me because we get to go anywhere and jump rope or play outside. Then when we get through jumping rope we get to go to some of our friends’ house and see can they come outside and play with us. I’m happy when I go places where it’s really fun and when I learn something new in class. That makes me happy because I like when we do math. |
On April 5, 1856 a child who later called himself Booker T. Washington was born in slavery on this 207-acre tobacco form. Booker's wife name was Margaret James Murray. Booker grew up in a school with white and a few blacks but that wasn't right. He also had a major influence on southern race relations and was dominant figure in black public affairs from 1895 until his death in 1915. When Booker T. Washington was 16 he decided that he wanted to go Hampton Institute in Virginia . He did not know if he could get in and if he got in he didn’t know how he was going to pay for it but in 1872 he show up on their doorstep flat broke and hungry