"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
Booker T. Washington
Born: (1856-1915)
Occuptaion: Lecturer, Civil Rights/Human Rights Activist, Educational Administrator, Professor, Organization Executive/Founder, Author/Poet
Booker T. Washington was born a slave in Hale's Ford, Virginia, reportedly on April 5, 1856. After emancipation, his family was so poverty stricken that he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines beginning at age nine. Always an intelligent and curious child, he yearned for an education and was frustrated when he could not receive good schooling locally. When he was 16 his parents allowed him to quit work to go to school. They had no money to help him, so he walked 200 miles to attend the Hampton Institute in Virginia and paid his tuition and board there by working as the janitor.
Dedicating himself to the idea that education would raise his people to equality in this country, Washington became a teacher. He first taught in his home town, then at the Hampton Institute, and then in 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. As head of the Institute, he traveled the country unceasingly to raise funds from blacks and whites both; soon he became a well-known speaker.
Famous Booker T. Washington Quotes
"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
"I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him."
In honor of Black History I'm gonna bring your attention to a different Black History figure everyday. Take time to read the different info and enlighten yourself.Thanks for reading the blog and come back tomorrow. Refresh-Rethink-Renew!!!
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