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Booker T Washington Learn To Read
1,767 wordsBradby, Marie. More Than Anything Else. Illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet. Scholastic, 1995. More Than Anything Else is based on the childhood of Booker T. Washington, as told through his eyes at nine-years-old. He tells of leaving his cabin before dawn to work all day shoveling salt with his father and older brother. All day long we shovel it, but it refuses to grow smaller. Despite the community poverty and hardship, theres a sense of freedom now, different then life before. All people are fre...
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Booker T Washington B Du Bois
1,117 words... egee, Alabama. He built the school up from a shack to an institution of more than forty buildings. Booker T. didnt think teaching blacks how to read and write and memorize from books would really help them. Booker instead taught how to live in a white society. He taught them how to use a tooth bush and how to bathe properly. In the process of building his school he became known for his speaking ability. On September 18, 1895, in Atlanta Georgia, Booker made his famous speech. He told blacks ...
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Booker T Washington Emancipation Proclamation
771 wordsThe Life of Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington was a great influence for the black community. The efforts this man put to become such a wonderful leader were incredible. Booker T. Washington was a man that started up from scratch. He grew up as a Black slave, who did not have much choices in life. He was born in Virginia in 1856, and he had a white father and a black mother. After the Emancipation Proclamation he went to work in a coal mine, while still a child. When Booker was seventeen ...
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Booker Prize Pulitzer Prize
2,123 wordsPrize fighters You can see what the publicity people at the Man Group, the stockbroking company that now finances what was once the Booker Prize, have been thinking. We have this brand: high recognition, cheap at the price. But isnt it small beer? Hasnt the label been used to mean arty-but-little, elegant-but-genteel? Why not be bolder? Why not make the competition a kind of world title? Think of Wimbledon. Think of the Open Golf Championship. Classy, very British, but also the worlds top events...
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