Booker T. Washington was born in a slave hut and after the emancipation he and his family moved to west virginia
He was a hard working person because at the age at 9 he started working to fund himself to go to school from working in salt furnace to coal mines
In 1881 Washington was selected to head a newly established normal school for African Americans at Tuskegee, an institution with two small converted buildings, no equipment, and very little money.