On April 5, 1856, Booker .T Washington was born on the Burroughs farm at the community of Hales ford, Virginia. Booker T. Washington mother was name Jane and she was an enslaved black woman who worked as a cook and his white father was a plantation owner. Sense Booker .T Washington mother was already in slavery, the meant when book .t Washington is born he will be born into to slavery and he has no choice but to do what he master says or any other white person says while he is a slave. His full name when he was born was Booker Taliaferro Washington; his middle name comes from his slave masters name. In the summer of 1865, when Booker .T Washington was nine, his mother moved him, his brother john, and sister Amanda to Malden, west virgina, where they lived with their stepfather Washington Ferguson. Booker .T Washington mother gave him a lot of support and influence him to reading and go to school. She bought him his first reading book and enrolled him in elementary school. After leaving Malden at the age of sixteen, Washington enrolled at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, in Hampton, Virginia. Students that had little income such as Washington could study their lesson and work to pay their way through college. The normal school at Hampton was founded to train teachers, as education was seen as a critical need by the black community. It was chiefly funded by church groups and individuals such as William Jackson Palmer, a Quaker, among others. Washington's work and studies at Hampton led him away from a life of unskilled labor. From 1878 to 1879 he Booker .T Washington attended Wayland Seminary in Washington, D.C from 1878 to 1879 and returned to teach at Hampton University. Soon after, Hampton President Samuel C. Armstrong recommended that Washington go to Tuskegee, Alabama to become the first principal at Tuskegee Institute. Barack Obama was born on august 4, 1961 at the kapiolanil medical center for women and children in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother...