Booker T. Washington by Nicholas Pung https://padlet.com/nicholas_pung/nickpung en-us 2014-02-19 15:04:00 UTC 2026-03-25 01:35:18 UTC hello@padlet.com  Achivements nicholas_pung https://padlet.com/nicholas_pung/nickpung/wish/21764245 -Founder and Builder of Tuskegee Institute

-Founder of National Negro Business League

-Fought for his rights

-Wanted to help people who had the same problems that he had

]]> 2014-02-21 01:16:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_pung/nickpung/wish/21764245 Personal Biography nicholas_pung https://padlet.com/nicholas_pung/nickpung/wish/21765212 Booker Washington was Born to a slave in 1856 in Virginia. Booker Washington later went to school and liked it so much he became a teacher. In 1881, Booker Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama also known as the Tuskegee University. During years it started to get popular. Its main focus was on training African Americans in agricultural pursuits such as science, art, and business of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock; farming. Booker Washington was a hard working person who cared about race equality. He did many speeches to inform people about it. Booker T. Washington remained the head of Tuskegee Institute until his death on November 14, 1915, at the age of 59, of congestive heart failure.

]]> 2014-02-21 01:32:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_pung/nickpung/wish/21765212 Personal Quote nicholas_pung https://padlet.com/nicholas_pung/nickpung/wish/21772720 "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed."

– Booker T. Washington]]> 2014-02-21 04:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_pung/nickpung/wish/21772720 National Negro Business League nicholas_pung https://padlet.com/nicholas_pung/nickpung/wish/21772916 2014-02-21 04:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_pung/nickpung/wish/21772916 Tuskegee Insitude nicholas_pung https://padlet.com/nicholas_pung/nickpung/wish/21772951 2014-02-21 04:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_pung/nickpung/wish/21772951 Sources nicholas_pung https://padlet.com/nicholas_pung/nickpung/wish/21773069 "Booker T. Washington Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 20 Feb. 2014. <http://www.biography.com/people/booker-t-washington-9524663>.

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"About Us." History and Mission. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2014.

]]> 2014-02-21 04:18:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_pung/nickpung/wish/21773069 Affected now nicholas_pung https://padlet.com/nicholas_pung/nickpung/wish/21773814 The Tuskegee today is an independent and offers students of a higher education.  Its programs serve a student body that is coeducational as well as racially, ethnically and religiously diverse. Tuskegee is a division II school in Alabama. Tuskegee continues its educational mission by enrolling 3,156 students.

]]> 2014-02-21 04:35:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_pung/nickpung/wish/21773814 Affected back then nicholas_pung https://padlet.com/nicholas_pung/nickpung/wish/21773816 Back then, the Tuskegee became a leading school in the country. When he died, it had more than 100 well-equipped buildings, 1,500 students, a 200-member faculty teaching 38 trades and professions, and a nearly $2 million in financing. Booker Washington took a lot of time into the Tuskegee too make sure it will last forever.

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