Booker T. Washington Interactive Biography - Black History Month Activity - Grades 6-12
By Micah's Learning Resources
This Booker T. Washington interactive biography turns the fight over how Black Americans should pursue freedom after Reconstruction into a self-guided activity that opens in any browser with no prep, no logins, and no installs. Students follow Washington (1856-1915) from slavery in Virginia and the salt furnaces of West Virginia to the founding of Tuskegee, the Atlanta address that made him famous, and the criticism that followed him for the rest of his life. What Students Explore - Biography: Five illustrated eras covering birth into slavery in Virginia and emancipation, the salt furnaces at Malden and the walk to Hampton Institute, the founding and building of Tuskegee, the 1895 Atlanta address and the years of national influence, and the Du Bois challenge and his final years - Timeline: A two-track timeline of 45 events setting Washington's life beside Reconstruction and its collapse, the spread of Jim Crow, the Niagara Movement, and the founding of the NAACP - Map: Thirteen places that shaped the story, from Hale's Ford and Malden through Hampton Institute and Wayland Seminary, to Tuskegee, the 1895 Atlanta Exposition, Boston, and the White House - Connections: A 22-node web of the people, works, events and institutions in the story, including his rival and critic W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, his Hampton mentor Samuel Chapman Armstrong, his Tuskegee colleague George Washington Carver, the funders Andrew Carnegie and Julius Rosenwald, Theodore Roosevelt, and his w
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