I, Booker Taliaferro Washington, was born into slavery on a small farm in the back country of Virginia. I, like many other Americans of a darker skin were considered to be a piece of property of the whites, who owned plantations in the south. After the emancipation act was passed and I was declared a "free" black man, my mother, brother John and I, traveled many hundred miles from the plantation in Franklin County, Virginia …showed first 75 words of 998 total…

…showed last 75 words of 998 total…whites following by conservative policies, but I faced the growing of black and white liberal opposition. As well as the NAACP (1909), groups demanding civil rights and encouraging protest in response to white aggressions such as lynching and segregation laws. I successfully defeated these critics, over time. My speaking tours and private persuasion were all under taken with the sense of equality. To try to equalize public educational opportunities and to reduce racial violence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**