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Main Street. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email. Washington incident was to me so much a matter of course that I regarded its sole importance as continued existence of that combination of bourbon intellect and intolerant truculence of spirit, through much of the south, which brought on the Civil War.
Du Bois over segregation caused a stir, but today, he is remembered as the most influential African American speaker of his time. His father, a white man, was unknown to Washington. At the close of the Civil War , all the enslaved people owned by James and Elizabeth Burroughs—including 9-year-old Booker, his siblings, and his mother—were freed. Jane moved her family to Malden, West Virginia. Soon after, she married Washington Ferguson, a free Black man. In Malden, Washington was only allowed to go to school after working from AM each morning in a local salt works before class.
It was at a second job in a local coalmine where he first heard two fellow works discuss the Hampton Institute, a school for formerly enslaved people in southeastern Virginia founded in by Brigadier General Samuel Chapman. Chapman had been a leader of Black troops for the Union during the Civil War and was dedicated to improving educational opportunities for African Americans. In , Washington walked the miles to Hampton, where he was an excellent student and received high grades.
He went on to study at Wayland Seminary in Washington, D. Washington assumed the role in at age 25 and would work at The Tuskegee Institute until his death in Carver would go on to be a celebrated figure in Black history in his own right, making huge advances in botany and farming technology.
Life in the post- Reconstruction era South was challenging for Black people. Discrimination was rife in the age of Jim Crow Laws. Exercising the right to vote under the 15 Amendment was dangerous, and access to jobs and education was severely limited. With the dawn of the Ku Klux Klan , the threat of retaliatory violence for advocating for civil rights was real. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than to spend a dollar in an opera house.
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