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Booker's birth
• Booker Taliaferro Washington was born a slave in Hales Ford, Virginia, near Roanoke, on April 5, 1856. -
booker's first move
• 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. -
Booker attended college
From 1872 to 1875, he attended the Hampton Institute, an industrial school for blacks in Hampton, Virginia. -
Booker attends Wayland Seminary
wayland seminary is in washington D.C.
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Booker becomes a teacher at Hampton
He became a teacher at the university in 1879. -
Booker is head of tuskegge school
Booker t Washington is head of tuskegee school -
washington marries his first wife
her name was Fannie N Smith -
Washington found the National Negro Business League
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booker first african american to be invited to the white house
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Booker dies
