BOOKER TALIAFERRO See also:

• WASHINGTON
• WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)
• BOOKER TALIAFERRO WASHINGTON (c. 1859– )
• WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829)
• WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799)

WASHINGTON (c. 1859– )  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• NEGRO (from Lat. eager, black)

negro teacher and reformer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on a See also:

• PLANTATION (Lat. plantare, to plant)

plantation near See also:

• HALE, EDWARD EVERETT (1822-1909)
• HALE, HORATIO (1817–1896)
• HALE, JOHN PARKER (1806–1873)
• HALE, NATHAN (1756-1776)
• HALE, SIR MATTHEW (1609-1676)
• HALE, WILLIAM GARDNER (1849- )

Hale's See also:

• FORD, EDWARD ONSLOW
• FORD, JOHN (r586–c.1640)
• FORD, RICHARD (1796-1858)
• FORD, THOMAS (b. c. 158o)

Ford, See also:

• FRANKLIN
• FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN (1706-1790)
• FRANKLIN, SIR JOHN (1786-1847)
• FRANKLIN, WILLIAM BUEL (1823-1903)

Franklin See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

• VIRGINIA
• VIRGINIA, or VERGINIA
• VIRGINIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Virginia . Soon after the See also:

• CIVIL

Civil See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War he went to See also:

• MALDEN

Malden, See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West Virginia, where he worked in a See also:

• SALT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch zout, Ger. Salz, Scand. salt; cognate with Gr. &Xs, Lat. sal)
• SALT, SIR TITUS, BART

salt fumace and then in a See also:

• COAL

coal mine . He obtained an elementary See also:

• EDUCATION

education at See also:

• NIGHT

night school, and worked as a See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house servant in a See also:

• FAMILY

family where his ambition for knowledge was encouraged . In 1872 " by walking, begging rides both in wagons and in the.cars " he travelled 500 M. to the See also:

• HAMPTON
• HAMPTON, WADE (1818-1902)

Hampton (Virginia) Normal and Agricultural See also:

• INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute, where he remained three years, working as janitor for his See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board and education, and graduated in 1875 . For two years he taught at Malden, West Virginia, and studied for eight months (1878–1879) at the Way-See also:

• LAND

land See also:

• SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

Seminary in See also:

• WASHINGTON
• WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)
• WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO (c. 1859– )
• WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829)
• WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799)

Washington, D.C . In 1879 he became instructor at the Hampton Institute, where he trained about seventy-five American See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians with whom See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General S . C . See also:

• ARMSTRONG, ARCHIBALD (d. 1672)
• ARMSTRONG, JOHN (1709-1779)
• ARMSTRONG, JOHN (1758—1843)
• ARMSTRONG, SAMUEL CHAPMAN (1839—1893)
• ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM GEORGE ARMSTRONG, BARON (1810—1900)

Armstrong was carrying on an educational experiment, and he See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed the night school, which became one of the most important features of the institution . In 1881 he was appointed organizer and See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal of a negro normal school at See also:

• TUSKEGEE

Tuskegee, See also:

• ALABAMA

Alabama (q.v.), for which the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state legislature had made an See also:

• ANNUAL

annual See also:

• APPROPRIATION (from Lat. appropriare, to set aside)

appropriation of $2000 . Opened in See also:

• JULY

July 1881 in a little shanty and See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, the Tuskegee Normal and See also:

• INDUSTRIAL

Industrial Institute became, under Washington's See also:

• PRESIDENCY

presidency, the foremost exponent of industrial education for the negro . To promote its interests and . to establish better understanding between whites and blacks, Washington delivered many addresses throughout the See also:

• UNITED

United States, notably a speech in 1895 at the opening of the See also:

• ATLANTA

Atlanta See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

Cotton States and See also:

• INTERNATIONAL, THE

International Exposition . In 1900 at See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston, See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, he organized the See also:

• NATIONAL

National Negro Business See also:

• LEAGUE

League .

Harvard conferred upon him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1896, and See also:

• DARTMOUTH
• DARTMOUTH, EARL OF

Dartmouth that of LL.D. in 19o1 . Among his publications are a remarkable autobiography, Up from See also:

• SLAVERY

Slavery (1901), The Future of the American Negro (1899), See also:

• SOWING (from "to sow," O. Eng. shwan, cf. Du. zaaijen, Ger. saen, &c.; the root is seen in Lat. severe, cf. "seed")

Sowing and See also:

• REAPING (from O.E. rypan, rypan, probably allied to " ripe," mature, i.e. " fit for reaping "; the cognate forms are found in other languages)

Reaping (190o), See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

Character See also:

• BUILDING

Building (190?), Working with the Hands (19o4), Tuskegee and its See also:

• PEOPLE

People (19o5), Putting the most into See also:

• LIFE

Life (1906), Life of See also:

• FREDERICK
• FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)

Frederick See also:

• DOUGLASS, FREDERICK (1817-1895)

Douglass (1 07), The Negro in Business (1907) and The See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

Story of the Negro (1909) .