Washington was the most influential black leader .
He influenced people in many parts of the.
He also became the leader of his people.
Booker was born into slavery in 1854 on a Virginia plantation.
He was born in a one room log cabin. Booker's mother was a slave.
woman and his father was a white man whom he never knew. .
After the Government freed the black slaves, Booker and his.
family moved to Malden, West Virginia. Booker worked at a salt.
furnace. He started his day at four in the morning.
Booker always wanted to be educated. One day, he heard a.
Negro reading to a group of workers. When Booker returned home,.
he told his mother that he wanted to learn how to read. Since Booker.
had to earn money to help support his family, he thought his only .
option would be to attend school at night. However, he was ultimately able to enroll in a school during the day.
On the first day of school, Booker was nervous while teacher was taking attendance because he realized that all the children had.
two or more names. Booker only knew of his first name, so he decided .
to choose a second name. When the teacher asked him his.
name he said, "Booker Washington." He later found out that his.
mother had named him Booker Talicferro, so he revised his name.
to Booker Talicferro (T.) Washington. .
In October, 1872, Booker T. Washington headed for Hampton.
Institute, an industrial school in Hampton, Virginia which he had.
wanted to attend for many years. He traveled to Richmond, Virginia by railroad, stage coach and finally by foot. When he finally arrived in Richmond, he was penniless, hungry and exhausted. .
To earn some money, Booker worked on a ship for a captain,.
saving every penny he earned so he could travel to Hampton. When.
he finally arrived at Hampton, the first person he met at the Institute,.
was the principal, Miss Mary F. Mackie. When he asked to be.
enrolled in the Institute, the principal looked at him doubtfully and.
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