Booker T Washington and Baby Eagles

Booker T. Washington, born in 1856, was an American educator, author, orator, and political leader. He was the dominant figure in the African American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915. Representative of the last generation of black leaders born in slavery, he spoke on behalf of blacks living in the South. He was born on April 5th 1856 in Franklin County Virginia. He was born in a slave hut but, after emancipation, moved with his family to Malden, w.va. Dire poverty ruled out regular schooling; at age nine he began working, first in a salt furnace and later in a coal mine.He was determined to an education, he enrolled at  Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia (1872), working as a janitor to help pay expenses. He graduated in 1875 and returned to Malden, where for two years he taught children in a day school and adults at night. Following studies at Wayland Seminary, Washington, D.C.1878-1879 he joined the staff of Hampton. in 1881 he was selected to head a newly established normal school for blacks at Tuskegee, an institution with two small converted buildings, no equipment, and very little money.Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute became a monument to his life's work. At his death 34 years later, it had more than 100 well-equipped buildings, some 1,500 students, a faculty of nearly 200 teaching 38 trades and professions, and an endowment of approximately $2 million.


Right now the baby eagles are up to eating dinner they are having crow and fish. Remember there are exactly three eagles i total so five eagles living in the nest. I hope they grow up to be big and strong their species is the bald eagles there feathers are grey now but they will turn brown and white. Remember you can see these eagles to at Alcoa.com/eagle cam. They are growing up so fast i cant wait to watch them learn to fly.