AKA Booker Taliaferro

Born: 5-Apr-1856
Birthplace: Hale's Ford, VA
Died: 14-Nov-1915
Location of death: Tuskegee, AL
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Tuskegee Institute

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Educator, Activist
Party Affiliation: Republican

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Founder, Tuskegee Institute

Father: (unknown white)
Father: Washington Ferguson (stepfather)
Mother: Jane
Brother: John (older)
Wife: Fanny Norton Smith (m. 1882, d. 1884, one child)
Daughter: Portia
Wife: Olivia A. Davidson (assistant principal, m. 1885, d. 1889, two children)
Son: Booker T. Washington, Jr.
Son: Ernest Davidson Washington
Wife: Margaret James Murray (m. 12-Oct-1893, d. 1925, until his death)

    University: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (1875)
    Teacher: Malden, WV
    Theological: Wayland Seminary, Washington, DC
    Teacher: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (1879-81)
    Administrator: Founder and Principal, Tuskegee Institute

    Manumission by the Emancipation Proclamation

Author of books:
The Story of My Life and Work (1900)
Up From Slavery (1901)
My Larger Education (1911)
The Man Farthest Down (1912)

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