Early Life
Education
Tuskegee Normal Industrial Institute
Civil Rights Activist
Speeches
100
What year was Washington born?
What is 1865
100
True or false: Booker took a job as a cashier to help pay for his tuition for college
What is False, he took a job as a janitor at his college to help pay for his tuition.
100
What year did Tuskegee University open?
What is 1881
100
Who disagreed with Washington's philosophy of taking a "back seat to whites"?
Who is W.E.B Du bois
100
What speech did Washington give when he arrived in Georgia?
What is the Atlanta Compromise
200
What state was Washington born in?
What is Virginia
200
What year did Washington graduate from the Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute in Virginia?
What is 1875
200
In 1881, when the school first opened, what building was loaned to the new university?
What is an old church
200
What rights did Booker push for blacks in the south?
What are Economic and Political rights
200
At the Atlanta Compromise speech, what race was most of the people in the audience?
What is White
300
True or false: Little Washington was occasionally beaten for not performing his duties on his plantation
What is True
300
At the Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute, what job was Booker offered by the school's headmaster?
What is a teaching job
300
How many acres of land did Washington purchase for his new school?
What is 100 acres
300
With the dispute between Du bois and Washington, what type of education did Booker fight for blacks?
What is industrial education
400
When Booker's mother got him his first book, what did he learn?
What is the alphabet and to write
400
For a short time he taught at his old grade school, what state was this school located in?
What is Malden, Virginia
400
Fill in the blank: Through their own labor, ________ supplied a large part of the needs of the school.
What are students
400
What did Washington agree to, as long as whites provided blacks with economic improvement and progress?
What is segregation and discrimination
500
At nine-years-old, where did booker go to work near his plantation?
What are salt furnaces
500
The headmaster of the Hampton college in Virginia recommended Washington to run a colored school that opened in Alabama, known as Tuskegee University, what was the headmaster's name?
What is General Samuel C. Armstrong
500
By 1888, how many students were enrolled in Tuskegee University?
What is 400+ students