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was still able to keep it an interesting topic. Slavery seems to always have been something that caught my attention in school, because it’s a topic that carries onto today with people still dealing with racial difficulties. Born as a slave Booker T. Washington clearly had to work hard for everything he needed and wanted to accomplish in life. Being such a determined, after he received his freedom he would wake up early enough to study before his

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How many people have heard of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington? Many. How many people know who they both are and what kind of lives they lived? Less. Frederick Douglass was born in approximately 1818 in Tuckahoe, Maryland, enslaved. In 1838, he became free and also became an orator and writer to advocate the liberation and rights of his race. Booker T. Washington, born in a “fourteen by sixteen” log cabin, was also, like Frederick Douglass, born into slavery around 1856. He was

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Booker T. Washington: Fighter for the Black ManBooker T. Washington was a man beyond words. His perseverance and will to workwere well known throughout the United States. He rose from slavery, deliveringspeech after speech expressing his views on how to uplift America's view of theNegro. He felt that knowledge was power, not just knowledge of "books", butknowledge of agricultural and industrial trades. He felt that the Negro wouldrise to be an equal in American society through hard work.

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Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery, an Autobiography. Garden City, Ny: Doubleday, 1963. Print. Washington was a slave at birth in Virginia. He graduated from Hampton, then became an instructor there. He was the founder of the Tuskegee Institute. The book goes in depth on his story. It shows what he went through as a slave and the discrimination he faced as a person of color. It shows how he got out of being a slave and into a teacher. This book develops an understanding of the hardships

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In Booker T. Washington’s 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech, he is trying to convince his audience by using vivid imagery, allegories, repetition, and reasonable ideas. He uses an optimistic tone to convey four appeals. Throughout the whole speech, he establishes his credibility to a predominantly white audience to make his point stand out for the changes he believes are necessary. Booker T. Washington delivers the 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech to a white and black audience about the equality blacks

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Ownership: Public DomainBooker T. Washington is one of the most controversial and dominant figures in African American history. According to his autobiography Up From Slavery (1901), he did not know the exact year, date, and place of his birth or his father’s name. Yet, it is widely understood that he was born enslaved on April 5, 1856 in Hale's Ford, Virginia. His mother’s name was Jane and his father was a white man from a nearby plantation. At the age of 9, Washington was freed from slavery and

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Slavery Booker T. Washington shows he can help others with a willing heart and is always there to step up and give eager children an education! In the book Up from Slavery we learn that Booker would rather work or give kids an education then playing video games (even though they didn’t have them back then). Booker T. Washington was ecstatic about giving kids a education. Even with several leeks in the school or having to be put in a chicken house he continued to teach diligently!! Booker recalls

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Booker T. Washington was a young black male born into the shackles of Southern slavery. With the Union victory in the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, Washington’s family and blacks in the United States found hope in a new opportunity, freedom. Washington saw this freedom as an opportunity to pursue a practical education. Through perseverance and good fortunes, Washington was able to attain that education at Hampton National Institute. At Hampton, his experiences and beliefs

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The autobiography of Booker T. Washing titled Up From Slavery is a rich narrative of the man's life from slavery to one of the founders of the Tuskegee Institute. The book takes us through one of the most dynamic periods in this country's history, especially African Americans. I am very interested in the period following the Civil War and especially in the transformation of African Americans from slaves to freemen. Up From Slavery provides a great deal of information on this time period and helped

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alterationchange in the way that their homes, businesses, and lives were runoperated. With the roles of whites and blacks alteredreoriented, the ways in which the two groups interacted changed as well – the South was truly “reconstructed”. Booker T. Washington lived through this time, becoming famousrenowned for his conservative navigation of the evolving racial climate and hisremembered for his historic and became famous for a number of achievements. Among Washington’s enduring most known accomplishments

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