# A Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington

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A BOYS' LIFE OF
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
CONTENTS
* CHAPTERPAGE
* I.Early Childhood................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1
* II.Boyhood Days................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................9
* III.Planning for an Education................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................14
* IV.School Days at Hampton................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................22
* V.Beginning Life in the Outside World................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................33
* VI.Back at Hampton................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................40
* VII.Building a Great School................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................45
* VIII.Strenuous Days................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................56
* IX.Raising Money for Tuskegee................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................67
* X.Making Speeches................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................76
* XI.Success as Educational Leader................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................88
* XII.Leading His People................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................105
* XIII.Political Experiences................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................112
* XIV.Visits to Europe................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................118
* XV.Booker T. Washington: The Man................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................129
Symbolic Group Erected at Tuskegee Institute (1922).
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| | PAGE |
| Symbolic Group Erected at Tuskegee Institute (1922) | Frontispiece |
| Founder's Day Drill at Tuskegee | 6 |
| Cabinetmaking at Tuskegee | 23 |
| Booker T. Washington as a Hampton Graduate (1875) | 24 |
| Booker T. Washington's Class (1875) at Hampton Institute | 31 |
| Tuskegee's First Group of Buildings | 51 |
| A Sunday Afternoon Band Concert on the Campus | 58 |
| Automobile and Buggy Trimming at Tuskegee | 61 |
| Class in Physical Training at Tuskegee | 65 |
| White Hall; Chapel; Tatum Hall, Tuskegee Institute | 69 |
| John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital, Tuskegee Institute | 72 |
| Class in Photography, Tuskegee Institute | 74 |
| Chemistry Class, Tuskegee Academic Department | 89 |
| Truck Gardening, Tuskegee Institute | 92 |
| Domestic Science Class at Tuskegee | 95 ​ |
| The Students' Band of a Rural School | 99 |
| Tailoring Division, Tuskegee Institute | 101 |
| Booker T. Washington, First Principal of Tuskegee Institute | 119 |
| Booker T. Washington and His Family | 132 |
| Robert Russa Moton, Successor to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee | 139 |
| Booker T. Washington and His Grandchildren | 141 |
A BOYS' LIFE OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
BY W. C. JACKSON Vice President of the North Carolina College for Women, Greensboro, and Professor of History
NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1922 All rights reserved
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Copyright, 1922,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published June, 1922