Booker T Washington - Hardy, Va.
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fatcat161
N 37° 07.187 W 079° 43.929
17S E 612633 N 4108912
Located near the visitor center in the park. The park is on Booker T. Washington Highway (Hwy 122) near Hardy, Va.
Waymark Code: WM8GK0
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 03/30/2010
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Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915, Educator. Booker Taliaferro Washington was the foremost black educator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He also had a major influence on southern race relations and was the dominant figure in black public affairs from 1895 until his death in 1915. Born a slave on a small farm in the Virginia backcountry, he moved with his family after emancipation to work in the salt furnaces and coal mines of West Virginia. After a secondary education at Hampton Institute, he taught an upgraded school and experimented briefly with the study of law and the ministry, but a teaching position at Hampton decided his future career. In 1881 he founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute on the Hampton model in the Black Belt of Alabama. (
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Booker T Washington National Monument
Hardy, VA 24101
540-721-2094
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