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45. booker heart two men talking about a large black school that had recently been
stablished in Virginia.
46. The name of the school was Hampton normal and agricultural institute.
47. The school prepared its students to become teachers.
48. Mrs ruffner needed a houseboy at home
49. one the wealthiest and most influential men in town.
50. She was the generals were had a sharp tongue and a reputation for stricted.
51. he help to clean weather people honesty and frackness also booker learned,
he was a sector and trustworthy young man
52. she provider him with bones and during the winter she allowed him to needthe
brokeville school for a few hours each day.
53. He was always writing to quit pay for study.
54. because he decided to become a student at Hampton institute in Virginia
55. 2000 miles
56. because he began to run out of many.
57. He stept under the sidewalk.
58. anything because he didnt have money.
59. he was filled with a tremendous serie up frade and accomplishment
60. because he was with dirty clothing and his lean hungry appearance the lady
principal thought that he was sweeping
61. I guess you will do to enter this institution.
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88. What were a few people beginning to see around the year 1880?
The Knights of Labor was the largest and one of the most important American labor
organizations of the 1880s. Its most important leader was Terence V. Powderly.
The Knights promoted the social and cultural uplift of the working man, rejected
socialism and anarchism, demanded the eight-hour day, and promoted the
producers ethic of republicanism.
89. At whose request did the state legislature of Alabama grant $2000?
went for $ 2,000 of scholarship fund ,the money ,the instructed Washington was to
be used, to help in the education of colored men of good moral character
,particularly those who have the ministry in view.
90. What was this money granted for?
The money went granted for to help in the education of colored men of good moral
character , particularly those who have the ministry in view, for to build a small
chapel on the Tuskegee campus as well as a bible school for the training of future
ministers.
91. What did some people feel about the principal of the school?
He went a person that known to react swiftly that fighting by the good education of
the people no matter race, color, he went to person very professional and thrifty
manner of the school.
92. By whom was booker t Washington strongly recommended?
In 1881, the Hampton Institute president Samuel C. Armstrong recommended
Washington to become the first leader of Tuskegee Institute, the new normal
school (teachers' college) in Alabama . He led the institution for the rest of his life
and became a prominent national leader among African Americans, with
considerable influence with wealthy white philanthropists and politicians.
93. Why was booker an excellent choice?
Booker T. Washington was an excellent person, another great African-American
leader, was differed in their approaches to education. Washington favored
vocational education that would teach a skilled trade, such as farming or carpentry.
While favored broader more formal education, such as literature and sciences.
Because, the students must to think not in terms of race or color, or language, or
religion, or political boundaries, but in terms of humanity. He believed in equality,
but differed on the manner in which it would be achieved.
111. Why was the discipline at the school strict?
because everyone were in a disciplinary be basically living a lie, only to exposed at
some later date by one person brave enough to challenge the accepted paradigm
of the times.
112. Why were his students also taught correct manners and speech?
Because Washington He simply tried to expand the notion of equal, pleading and
appealing to whites for more equal treatment, trading better treatment for black
cooperation with whites, that's what Washington instilled their students.
113. How many students were there at the school within a few weeks?
The number of students had also jumped from 30 to more than 500.
114. What did the small school soon need?
The school small need build new institutions, have better teachers, better
education for have good professionals and grown.
115. From whom did Professor Washington borrow $500?
William Bowen
116. What did the school buy with this money?
Bookkeeping, more land to build more classrooms.
117. Where was the old plantation?
The old plantation as booker called it was located near the village of Hales Ford, in
the rolling hills of northeast Franklin country, at the foot of the Blue Ridge
Mountains.
118. Why did the students and teachers build porter hall themselves?
Because the students can go and receive extended mental training, but those
where young men and women cal learn a trade in addition to other training.
As the students body continue to grow. The need for additional buildings and
teachers become a cute, for increasingly long periods of time.
120. How many students were turned away from the school for lack of
money?
50 students
121. What part of each year did Professor Washington spend with his family?
It $2000, annually to establish a normal school for colored teachers at Tuskegee.
122. What did he do the rest of the year?
Continued, performing more projects throughout the rest of the year such as:
industrial constructions.
123. How many speeches did he make?
Only two speeches did he make.
124. What did he try to interest people in?
The try and education all people in black for a better job opportunity in your life.
125. What did he want the people of both races to do?
The people want to have of hard not labor and students mastered a variety of
subjects, from civil government and bookkeeping to more practical vacations such
as carpentry, sewing, and janitorial work.
126. What was professor Washington invited to do in 1895?
Booker T. Washington was invited to speak at the Cotton States and International
Exposition in Atlanta.
127. What kind of audience was he introduced to?
The speech that he delivered, which come to be known as the Atlanta compromise,
was not particularly original, but it was forceful and timely.
128. Who introduced him to the audience?
The Atlanta audience understood artificial forcing to mean laws or constitutional
amendments, any legal device that would allow black to obtain their civil rights.
129. Why was this very a significant event?
In 1896 he asks the Slater fund for Negro education provided the institute with
enough money to establish a separate agricultural school.
139. Why did he invite George Washington Carver to be in charge of the
station?
Washington agreed to wait, and to sweeten the deal, he offered carver a yearly
salary of $1000 plus board considerably more than most teachers at Tuskegee
were receiving
140. What did Professor Carver find in his experiments?
Washington racial philosophy sounded extremely reasonable, keep out of politics
make any concession consistent with method.
141. What was the result of these experiments?
The result that obtained a excellent about these experiments because carver
showed the man his experiment station held, simple demonstrations, and did his
best to answer their questions concerning fertilization and crop diversity.
142. What kind of school did professors Washington and Carver start?
At the time, carver was teaching at Iowa state college and working toward his
masters degree in agriculture.
143. Why did they start this kind of school?
Because they the two so Washington and carver have interest by the agriculture
and the study of agriculture is an important part of the Tuskegee.
144. How did they demonstrate their new products and ideas to farmers?
Washington used the Tuskegee Negro conferences to promote his ideas
concerning black accommodation, by and large, the farmers ministers, and
schoolteachers who attended the annual event were receptive to his massage.
145. What happened as a result of their work?
He urged the farmers to buy land, to raise more food supplies, to keep out of debt,
and to send their children to school, if only for a few months each year.
146. What was Booker T. Washington recognized as by that time?
Washington how racial philosophy.
147. What did he write in 1990?
Early in November 1915, his health finally broke, he was in New York City, raising
funds for Tuskegee Institute and making a number of public speeches.
158. Why did he probably Known that the end was near?
Because he felt the exhaustion and illness that overcame him.
159. When did Booker T. Washington die?
In Sunday November 14, 1915.
160. Who has paid tribute to the memory of Booker T. Washington?
Du Bois.