For Debussy, like Beethoven before him, is a passionate lover of Nature. Music: An Art and a Language Walter Raymond Spalding The following is illustrative of the attitude of the old master towards Debussy.
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.
Booker T. Washington Biography. Name at birth: Booker Taliaferro Washington. Booker T. Washington was born a slave and deprived of any early education, but he still became Americaâs leading black educator at the start of the 20th century. Booker T. Washington was the first teacher and principal of the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. Tuskegee became famous as a school for African-Americans, where Washington championed learning and job training as the path to black self-reliance and success in America.