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Title: Afro-American encyclopaedia, or, The thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race (electronic resource): embracing addresses, lectures, biographical sketches, sermons, poems, names of universities, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, books, and a history of the denominations, giving the numerical strength of each : in fact, it teaches every subject of interest to the colored people, as discussed by more than one hundred of their wisest and best men and women : illustrated with beautiful half-tone engravings
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Haley, James T Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Mind and matter Settle, William B., former owner. GEU Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950, former owner. GEU Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, former owner. GEU
Subjects: African Americans African Americans African Americans
Publisher: Nashville, Tenn. : Haley & Florida
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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being about equally dividedbetween white and colored. Miss Gray is a very accomplished lady,and is spoken of in the highest terms of the press without regardto nationality. Prof. Booker T. Washington. (Principal of the Tuskeyee, Alabama, Institute—How and Where the Great EducatorGrew to Distinction.) ■R. WASHINGTON, of Tuskegee, Ala., was born a slave atHales Ford, Va., April, 18.37. He belonged to a family by thename of Burrows. Very soon after the war he went with hismother, Jane Ferguson, his stepfather and the remainder of hisfamily to Maiden, W. Va., to live. Here he worked in the salt fur-naces the greater part of each year and went to school during threeor four months. Mr. Washington usually secured some one to teachhim at night when not permitted to attend school in the clay. Afterworking in the mines and furnaces for a considerable time, he se-cured employment at the house of Mrs. Viola Buhner, a lady of NewEngland birth and training, and who, though very exacting regard-
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Prof. Booker T. Washington, Tuskcg-ee, Ala. 86 AFKO-AiMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA. ing all matters f wrk, was very kind and showed her interest inthe education of young Washington in a number of ways. In 1871,in some way, Washington heard of the Hampton Institute in Virginia.He at once made up his mind to enter that institution. With his ownsmall earnings, amounting to S(> per month, and with what his familywere kind enough to give him, he found himself in Richmond, Va.,but friendless, shelterless and homeless. Casting about, however,he soon discovered a hole under a sidewalk that offered a nightssleep. As luck would have it, when he awoke next morning he foundhe was near a vessel that was unloading pig iron, and application was atonce made to the captain for work, which was given. Mr. Washing-ton worked here until he had enough money to pay his way to Hamp-ton Institute, which place he reached with a surplus of fifty cents.He remained at Hampton three years, working his

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