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Booker T. Washington


Apr 05, 1856

Booker Taliaferro Washington was born in Franklin County, Virginia

1865

Booker T. Washington arrived in Malden with his family to work in the salt industry and local coal mines

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1871

Booker T. Washington enrolled at Hampton Institute in Hampton

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1875

Booker T. Washington graduated from Hampton Institute

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1879

Booker T. Washington returned to Hampton Institute as a teacher

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1881

Booker T. Washington left West Virginia

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1881

Booker T. Washington opened his own educational institution for African-Americans in Tuskegee, Alabama

Sep 19, 1895

Booker T. Washington delivered an address at the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition

Nov 14, 1915

Booker T. Washington died on the Tuskegee Institute campus


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