Atlanta Compromise: the Future of an American Negro
Words: 497 Pages: 2 4312Booker T. Washington was born on April 5, 1856, in Hale’s Ford, Westlake Corner, VA. Washington was born into slavery and never knew his birthday. However, the year on his headstone reads 1856. It is said that his father was a white man. When he was nine, Booker and his family gained freedom under the Emancipation Proclamation. Jane, Washington’s mother, moved her family to West Virginia with her husband, Washington Ferguson, who had escaped from slavery and settled there during […]