BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
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On April 15, 1856 a child who later called himself Booker T. Washington was born a into slavery on this 207 acre tobacco farm in Virginia. James Burroughs was his master and Booker T. Washington was his property not much is known of his father even by Washington himself. His mother Jane raised him and he was put to work as early as possible. Since it was illegal for a slave to learn to read and write Washington received no education. He went to school in Franklin County not as a student but to carry books for one of James Burroughs daughter.

Born a slave Booker T. Washington rose to become the commonly recognized leader of Negro race in America. Although he continually strove to be successful and to show other black men and women how they to can raise themselves. His leadership became controversial and his critics ironically accused of keeping the Negro down and in his place. Washington’s method of uplifting was education in a harmonious trinity of the head the hand and the heart from his founding Tuskegee Institute in 1881 to his death in 1915 Booker T. Washington exerted.