1. Booker T. Washington Summary
... forever changed our country. All slaves were free and had to go find a new place to live and a new place to work. When the slaves were first freed there was alot of hostile feelings from the whites towards the newly freed slaves. To blacks living within post- Reconstruction South, Washington offered industrial education as the means of escape from sharecropping and ... class to learn during the day and at night he would clean the buildings. In 1875, Booker successfully completed his studies at Hampton Institute. He returned to West Virginia with alot of debt to repay The Hampton Institu...
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- Grade Level: High School