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In the 1700s Boston-born Franklin, champion of independence, said, “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
In the 1900s, Atlanta-born King, champion of freedom said, “We must all learn to live together as brothers, or we will all perish together as fools.”
And smack dab in the middle of these two giants, stands a third great American of history, an 1800s Virginia-born champion of both independence and freedom: Booker T. Washington.
Yet today, the man Andrew Carnegie referred to as history’s other Washington, is barely remembered, if at all, merely as the founder of what we know today as Tuskegee University.
However, there is much more.
A look into his life and educational philosophy just might provide answers to some of today’s most vexing questions: “Why do over a million kids each year — 7,000 each school day — drop out of school? How do we motivate students to behave better? Where are the role models we need today to help young people envision a better future for themselves?”
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Booker T. Washington’s first nine — some say most formative — years were spent as a slave. Yet he rose up from slavery to achieve such great heights. Perhaps Booker T.’s story can serve as a starting point to convey the truth to millions of youths who are continually exposed to negative messages from peers, pop-culture or neighbors: that — regardless of obstacles — character matters.
He was 29 when he was selected as 1st Principal of a new Negro school in Tuskegee, Alabama. He arrived only to discover no land, buildings, teachers or students. Yet, from that unpromising beginning, he built Tuskegee into the largest educational institution in the South.
Over half of Tuskegee’s 5,000 acre campus was a working farm. Students learned agriculture, soil conservation, animal husbandry, dairying, crop management and the like in morning classes, then applied their knowledge in the afternoon to operating the farm. He introduced training in 45 trades, from carpentry and masonry to electrical and mechanical engineering, shoemaking, printing, publishing, nursing and yes, domestic skills.
He built a 150-teacher faculty, hiring the best he could find: people like George Washington Carver to head the Agricultural Department and Robert Taylor, the first black architect to graduate from MIT.
Under his leadership, Tuskegee’s enrollment grew to 2,000 plus and its endowment to $45 million (adjusted for inflation).
He wrote 14 books, countless news and magazine articles and delivered thousands of speeches coast to coast and in Europe.
He advised three United States presidents (McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft), was an internationally respected statesman, helped maintain Liberia’s freedom from France, and 10 years before President Taft suggested a U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he founded the National Negro Business League (NNBL) and grew it to 650 chapters in 34 states.
He persuaded Julius Rosenwald, builder of Sears, Roebuck, to fund Tuskegee-designed and staffed elementary schools. The Rosenwald schools eventually numbered almost 5,000 in 15 states.
Through it all, Washington survived an assassination attempt, endured multiple tragedies that would have broken the will of lesser men and withstood the vilest of insults hurled against anyone.
Yet, with every reason to be bitter, he chose to be better.
He sought to reconcile differences through teaching and preaching forgiveness, and so, turned adversity into advantage.
In the 1900s, Atlanta-born King, champion of freedom said, “We must all learn to live together as brothers, or we will all perish together as fools.”
And smack dab in the middle of these two giants, stands a third great American of history, an 1800s Virginia-born champion of both independence and freedom: Booker T. Washington.
Yet today, the man Andrew Carnegie referred to as history’s other Washington, is barely remembered, if at all, merely as the founder of what we know today as Tuskegee University.
However, there is much more.
A look into his life and educational philosophy just might provide answers to some of today’s most vexing questions: “Why do over a million kids each year — 7,000 each school day — drop out of school? How do we motivate students to behave better? Where are the role models we need today to help young people envision a better future for themselves?”
A Bridge
Booker T. Washington’s first nine — some say most formative — years were spent as a slave. Yet he rose up from slavery to achieve such great heights. Perhaps Booker T.’s story can serve as a starting point to convey the truth to millions of youths who are continually exposed to negative messages from peers, pop-culture or neighbors: that — regardless of obstacles — character matters.
He was 29 when he was selected as 1st Principal of a new Negro school in Tuskegee, Alabama. He arrived only to discover no land, buildings, teachers or students. Yet, from that unpromising beginning, he built Tuskegee into the largest educational institution in the South.
Over half of Tuskegee’s 5,000 acre campus was a working farm. Students learned agriculture, soil conservation, animal husbandry, dairying, crop management and the like in morning classes, then applied their knowledge in the afternoon to operating the farm. He introduced training in 45 trades, from carpentry and masonry to electrical and mechanical engineering, shoemaking, printing, publishing, nursing and yes, domestic skills.
He built a 150-teacher faculty, hiring the best he could find: people like George Washington Carver to head the Agricultural Department and Robert Taylor, the first black architect to graduate from MIT.
Under his leadership, Tuskegee’s enrollment grew to 2,000 plus and its endowment to $45 million (adjusted for inflation).
He wrote 14 books, countless news and magazine articles and delivered thousands of speeches coast to coast and in Europe.
He advised three United States presidents (McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft), was an internationally respected statesman, helped maintain Liberia’s freedom from France, and 10 years before President Taft suggested a U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he founded the National Negro Business League (NNBL) and grew it to 650 chapters in 34 states.
He persuaded Julius Rosenwald, builder of Sears, Roebuck, to fund Tuskegee-designed and staffed elementary schools. The Rosenwald schools eventually numbered almost 5,000 in 15 states.
Through it all, Washington survived an assassination attempt, endured multiple tragedies that would have broken the will of lesser men and withstood the vilest of insults hurled against anyone.
Yet, with every reason to be bitter, he chose to be better.
He sought to reconcile differences through teaching and preaching forgiveness, and so, turned adversity into advantage.
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Booker T Washington was born as a slave in a log cabin on a plantation in Virginia. His mother Jane worked as a cook for the plantation owner.
His early years was spent doing different works in the plantation. Washington understood the importance of education and started going to school. He noticed that the slave who was sent to the post office to collect the mail would linger to overhear the conversations of their whites masters. He would then share it with the other slaves. In this way they kept themselves informed about the latest news.
He also noted that the slaves do not hate their white masters. Washington was against the institution of slavery but he avoided blaming anyone for slavery.
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