when did booker t washington become a teacher
1878 to 1879 - Booker T. Washington spends the winter studying at the Wayland Seminary in Washington, D.C. 1879 - Booker T. Washington returns to Hampton to work for two years as a night teacher and supervisor of the Kiowa and Cheyenne students Hampton had recently accepted. May 1881 - Booker T. Washington is recommended by his supervisor to head a new school for African Americans to be founded in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Born: 1856 in Hale's Ford, Virginia; Died: November 14, 1915 in Tuskegee, Alabama; Best known for: Opening the Tuskegee Institute; Biography: Where did Booker T. Washington grow up? Booker T. Washington was born into slavery sometime in 1856. His mother, Jane, and stepfather, Washington, worked on a plantation in Virginia. He had a brother and a sister. They all lived in a small wooden one-room shack where the children slept on the dirt floor.