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Following studies at Wayland Seminary, Washington, D.C.

He graduated in 1875 and returned to Malden, where for two years he taught children in a day school and adults at night. Determined to get an education, he enrolled at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University) in Virginia (1872), working as a janitor to help pay expenses. Dire poverty ruled out regular schooling at age nine he began working, first in a salt furnace and later in a coal mine. He was born in a slave hut but, after emancipation, moved with his family to Malden, West Virginia. Washington, in full Booker Taliaferro Washington, (born April 5, 1856, Franklin county, Virginia, U.S.-died November 14, 1915, Tuskegee, Alabama), educator and reformer, first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), and the most influential spokesman for Black Americans between 18. In his epochal speech (September 18, 1895) to a racially mixed audience at the Atlanta Exposition, Washington stated that: "In all things that are purely social we can be separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." This “accommodationist” philosophy disturbed Black intellectuals, who feared Washington’s emphasis on vocational skills was to the detriment of academic development and civil rights.īooker T. The Atlanta Compromise was a statement on race relations by Booker T.