Show BOOKER T washington DEAD noted leader of negro race butters buffer nervous breakdown ala docker T washington foremost teacher and leader of tho the negro race oled died early sunday at his homo home here near the tuskegee institute of which ho he was waa founder and president hardening of the ar tortes following a nervous breakdown caused death four hours after dr washington arrived from new york doctor washington was waa lorn in slavery near If alesford va in 1857 or 1868 1858 after the emancipation ot of hla his race he ha moved with his bis family to west virginia when he be was ablo able to scrape together sufficient money to pay hla his stage coach tare fare to ito hampton Hajn va ho he entered general armstrongs school for negroes and worked his way through an academic course graduating in ista later ho be became a teacher in the hampton institute where f remained until 1881 when he organized the industrial du school tor for Negro tig ii at tuske goo geo to which he ha devoted most of his bla al during the remaining years of at hla his life tho the institute ea in a rented shanty church Toda today alt owns owna acres of land in Alaba alabama bia and has nearly buildings valued at WOO |