From slave

to Teacher

His Earlylife

Civil War

Malden, West Virginia (1886)

In Hampton Institute

Booker graduated with honors in 1875

His laterlife

Tuskegee Normal and

IndustrialInstitute

1881

George Washington Carver

The “compromise” speechat the cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia

(1895)

Honouring Booker

“I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study would be about

the same as getting into paradise.” – Booker T. Washington

“He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and

industry.”