Booker T. Washington
Booker
T. Washington belonged to a slave
family. He was born in Virginia in the late 1850s. Booker T. Washington entered
the school himself and became a teacher thereafter the Civil War.
In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee General and Industrial Institute in Alabama
(now called Tuskegee University), which became very popular. It focused
on training African Americans in agricultural pursuits. He is a
well-known political advisor and author, a Washington-based
intellectual. He continued to strive for racial development and succeeded in
establishing himself as a great leader.
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"Booker
T Washington was born in the Virginia area. Where his mother worked as a
cook for other slaves, who were given a hut next to the kitchen to live in.
Which was very dilapidated. When Booker was seven years old, he was hired by
his employer. He would pick up his master's girl's bag and run behind the buggy
to get to the school, which was a mile away.
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After Abraham Lincoln's declaration of independence,
his mother married a black man of his own age who took him to a village some
distance from Virginia, where he began working in a salt mine. He also hired
Booker to work with him. When someone came and opened a school nearby, he
became interested in reading again. Booker's father allowed him to study on the
condition that he read in the morning. He will work at the salt mine from the
time he goes to school and until late at night after school.
Booker
accepted the offer and enrolled at the school, where he was asked for a
half-name that he did not have, so he adopted his own name, T-Washington, which
remained with him for the rest of his life. Booker writes in his book that
"there was a dire need for blacks to be released after the announcement,
one to change their name, such as John, Log, Stone, etc., or to increase them
further. I used to work in the fields or leave work and go to another city or
village to work.
These two things were essential in the early
days, which were desperately needed by black people. Booker learned to
read and write within a year of his God-given abilities. Meanwhile, Booker was
informed that a school for blacks was open in the city of Hampton, where there
was also a workplace. Ready for when he got there on foot, his condition had
worsened due to thirst and hunger. A compassionate teacher hired him as a
watchman for a small salary.
The school was founded in
Hampton by General Shepton Armstrong in 1828 for blacks, known as the Normal
School. In the same school, Booker had to sweep twice a day and clean
furniture four times, and at night he studied by the fire in his spare time.
Due to Booker's interest, the teachers there
gave him more facilities for academic studies. Due to his dedication to
education, the school administration gave Booker the charge of a night school
where he worked as a teacher for day laborers. He started teaching in an adult
education class.
According to Booker T Washington, the educational effect was much greater in the blacks than in the Red indent. In 1881, the people of Tuskegee, Alabama, applied to the school for a qualified teacher. The school administration deported Booker to Alabama, where the population of the black was larger than in other states.
Normal IndustrialInstitute Tuskegee:
When Booker T Washington took charge of
the school, there were only two mud huts, one used for the school and the other
for the students to live in. And cut wood to make school furniture. In the In early days of school, Booker T Washington himself used to mix mud and
mud with the students in constructing a paved building.
Initially, the government
provided a 2,000 grant for the school, and donations were
received from some whites. Booker traveled to different cities during the
holidays to give lectures and raise funds for the school. He also visited
England two or three times, where he received a good amount of money, while a
Jewish Seth from a well-known firm donated five thousand dollars a month.
Similarly, in 1914, the school
fund was seven million dollars and the income reached fourteen million dollars.
The school, which was established in 1881 in two huts, began to function in one
hundred and seven paved buildings in 1916 with the help of Booker, which
included various classes including agriculture, technical classes, dairy farm
mills, student accommodation. Hostels were built for it, besides Istanbul for
livestock, agricultural land for agriculture in which barley, vegetables, rice
are cultivated.
The number of students in this school was thirty
boys and girls in 1881, which in 1916 reached eight hundred and ninety-six boys
and six hundred and twenty-one girls from forty-eight states, who were adorned
with the ornaments of education by two hundred and eighteen teachers. Stay By
the year 1921, in a period of forty years, twelve thousand black students had
acquired knowledge and skills and had a good time.
The University of New England
awarded Booker the title of Doctor, a high honor in academic excellence. Dr.
Booker T Washington was not only a benefactor to black martyrs through Tuskegee,
but also a leader in the unity, civilization, and education of blacks
throughout the United States.
By 1927, a total of 6,000
schools for blacks had been established in various states of the United States,
which were funded by the Tuskegee Fund. In 1940, Dr. Booker founded the
Black Conference, which continues to this day. The institute has twenty-six
parties working for the betterment of the black nation through a
separate model. Dr. Booker has written these words in large letters on the
board in every school.
(1) An ignorant man cannot be worthy of freedom.
2) A lazy and lazy
man cannot be independent...
(3) No man can gain
influence without good manners and no woman can be beautiful in the true
sense.
The world's leading
scholars say that no one in the world has made as much educational, cultural
progress as blacks in the United States. Still, the rights of cultural and
political equality in the United States have not been granted to the black
nation for which efforts are being made. The Normal Industrial Institute Tuskegee
is still thriving; its parties are still working for the betterment and
betterment of the black nation.
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