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.
http://www.progenealogists.com/parks/aqw... Did find this passage about the death of her grandmother...so put the year around 1929: As a teenager she attended Booker T. Washington Junior High School in Montgomery, and participated in a high school program at State Teachers College (now Alabama State University).