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• Booker Taliaferro Washington was born a slave in Hales Ford, Virginia, near Roanoke, on April 5, 1856.
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• After the U.S. government freed all slaves in 1865, his family moved to Malden, West Virginia.
this is bookers first home as a freed man
In Malden, Virginia, Washington worked in coal mines and salt furnaces. -
From 1872 to 1875, he attended the Hampton Institute, an industrial school for blacks in Hampton, Virginia.
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wayland seminary is in washington D.C.
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He became a teacher at the university in 1879.
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Booker t Washington is head of tuskegee school
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her name was Fannie N Smith
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