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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Black History: Booker T. Washington

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Brittanica's Guide to Black History features Booker T. Washington, a educator and reformer, first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), and...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of "Up from Slavery: An Autobiography" by Booker T. Washington. His autobiography follows his experiences and struggles in his life after slavery.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Biography: Booker T. Washington for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate the biography of Booker T. Washington, educator and civil rights leader who opened the Tuskegee college for African Americans on this site.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Booker T. Washington

For Students 5th - 8th
Booker T. Washington was an African-American visionary. Read about his embrace of education as a way to lift up blacks in the racist South, but see how some of his views found opposition in the black community.
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Curated OER

National Park Service: American Visionaries: Booker T. Washington

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides a web exhibit that celebrates the incredible achievements of Booker T. Washington. Includes photos and biographical information about this extraordinary African American.
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Schools of California Online Resources for Education

Score H/ss: Booker T. Washington

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Biography of Booker T. Washington. Includes photographs and illustrations.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Address to the Country

For Students 9th - 10th
Read Booker T. Washington's controversial speech arguing the importance of material advancement over integration for African Americans. He believed freed slaves needed to start at the bottom of the economic scale before moving up to...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: You Decide: Washington or Du Bois?

For Students 9th - 10th
During the early Progressive Era, two leaders dominated the debate over the best course for racial advancement in America. Who had the better vision for improving the conditions of African Americans in the early 1900s, Booker T....
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Schools of California Online Resources for Education

Score: Booker T. Washington: Write a Story

For Students 1st - 5th
Using information learned while reading about Booker T. Washington, students will pick a topic and write a short story connecting that information to life experiences.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "George Washington Carver" by Barbara Radner

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with "George Washington Carver" by Barbara Radner accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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Washington State University

Washington State University: Literary Movements: The Slave Narrative

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to defining "Slave Narrative," this website includes information on the styles and influences associated with slave narratives. Also provided, are links to several examples of nineteenth- and twentieth-century slave narratives.
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Black Past

Black Past: Carver, George Washington

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief encyclopedia biography about George Washington Carver tells about his interest and research in agriculture, especially in the South.
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Primary
American Public Media

Say It Plain: Speech to Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition

For Students 9th - 10th
Booker T. Washington made a consequential speech in Atlanta in 1895, known now as the Atlanta Compromise. Read about the speech, the consessions Washington felt African-Americans needed to make, and the context in which the speech was...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: The Atlanta Compromise Speech (1895)

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how Booker T. Washington tried to allay the fears of white Southerners in his speech in Atlanta in September, 1895. Although hailed as a new era in which blacks would give up their civil and political rights and in return get...
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Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Atlanta Compromise Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting article gives the background and ramifications of the Atlanta Compromise speech given by Booker T. Washington in 1895.
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Primary
Yale University

Avalon Project: African Americans Biography, Autobiography and History

For Students 9th - 10th
Five primary source materials on African American history: I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr., My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, Up From...
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Curated OER

Booker T. Washington

For Students 9th - 10th
A speech by Mary Church Terrell, a letter by Booker T. Washington, a letter by W.E.B. DuBois, and the Niagara Movement's Declaration of Principles describe African American civil rights strategies in the early-twentieth century.
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Va: Booker T. Washington Natl Monument

For Students 9th - 10th
An image of the Booker T. Washington National Monument.
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Other

In Search of Heroes: George Washington Carver

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Grace Products Corporation provides a wealth of information detailing George Washington Carver's life. Content includes a biography, timeline, and more.
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Howard University

Art @ Howard: Booker T. Washington Portrait

For Students 9th - 10th
Howard University presents the painting by Malvin Gray Johson, "Booker T. Washington,"
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Picturing America: Puryear: Ladder for Booker T. Washington [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about and analysis of a characteristic work by Martin Puryear.
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Website
Curated OER

National Park Service: Legends of Tuskegee

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibit documents the history and achievements of three key constituents of Tuskegee University: Booker T. Washington, who founded the university; the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American flying squadron who trained there during...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Education, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Chapters and photographs in which Booker T. Washington promotes manual education for blacks. In this resource, Washington makes his case for the practical, trades-based education he installed at the Tuskegee Institute.

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