Born into slavery in Virginia in the mid 1850s. Booker T. Washington put his on self into school and became a teacher after the Civil War. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee and Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama. His main focus was training African Americans in agricultural pursuits. Washington clashed with W.E.B Du Bois over the best avenues for racial uplift.
Washington spent his first 9 years of life as slave. At age 9 he worked on packing salt. In 1872, age 16 Washington entered Hampton Normal and agricultural institute in Virginia. He had a hard life at a young age from being a slave to going to school. There are many things that has happened in his life period. Washington's visibility won him international fame and the role of black adviser of presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. His widely read autobiography,up from slavery (1901),stands as a classic genre of narratives by American self-made men,as well as the prime source for Washington’s social and historical Philosophy. …show more content…
Graduated in 1875 and returned to Malden, where for two years he taught children in a day school and adults at night. In 1881, Washington was selected to head a newly established normal school for African Americans. An Institution with two small converted buildings, in equipment and very little money, At his death 34 years later it had more than 100 well-equipped buildings, some 1,500 students, a faculty of nearly 200 teaching 38 trades,professions and endowment of approximately $2