Tag: History

365 Things I Believe: The Ditch

  Booker Taliaferro Washington was born into slavery on this day in 1856 at Hale’s Ford, Virginia. He became an educator, author, orator and advisor to Republican presidents. As a youth he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines in West Virginia before making his way to hampton Institute (now Hampton University). From there Hampton …

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365 Things I Believe: Liberty

  American sociologist, historian and civil rights activist, W.E.B. DuBois was born on this day in 1869 (died August 27, 1963). DuBois spoke out against lynching, Jim Crow laws and discrimintation. 365 Things I Believe is a revisioning of a year long web project. I initially launched the blog 365 Things I Believe because I …

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