Very bright and ready to go,” said Larry Rowe, author of Virginia Slavery and King Salt in Booker T. Washington’s Boyhood Home. Washington’s mother, Jane Ferguson, played a pivotal role in ...

Booker T Washington's' mother was the plantation cook, a slave named Jane. He was born in 1856. He spent his youth working on the farm. He worked until the end of the Civil War. Mr. Washington ...

Both her mother and father ... In the tradition of Booker T. Washington, the prominent Black educator, Bethune felt it more important to educate Black people in vocational occupations so that ...