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Booker T. Washington National MonumentStudents working on a building at Tuskegee Institute.
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Booker T. Washington National Monument
To Be A Slave
 
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This story board will be used to teach students about Washington's life as a slave. While interacting with the park ranger, students will compare their life to Washington's life.
 

“. . . I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse . . . would be about the same as getting into paradise."

 Booker T. Washington

In this program, students participate in a flannel-board story activity and a walk that helps students compare their lives to the enslaved child, Booker. Students see, touch and smell life on the mid-19th-century Burroughs plantation. While exploring objects and clothing related to Washington and the farm, students understand the very personal meaning of slavery as seen through the eyes of a young boy.

 
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Union Soldier reading a document.
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Park Ranger giving a tour.
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Image of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois
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Theodore Roosevelt the cowboy  

Did You Know?
Theodore Roosevelt had spent time ranching in North Dakota. He would later say "I never would have been president had it not been for my experiences in North Dakota."
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Last Updated: September 11, 2008 at 06:04 EST