Life of Booker T. Washington

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    Life of Booker T. Washington

  • Booker T. Washington got a job as a house boy for Viola Ruffner

  • Built from bottom up the Tuskegee Normal School for the blacks

  • His philosphy "Tuskegee Machine" won him support among blacks

  • Awarded the Honorary Masters Degree from Harvard

  • Published magezine article "The Awakening of the Negro"

  • Published "Up From Slavery" about his childhood as a slave

  • First African American to dine at the white house, invited by Theodore Rosevelt

  • Death of Booker T. Washington

  • Militatry selected Tuskegee Institute to teach African American pilots because of their commitment