Margaret Murray Washington


June 4, 1925: American academic Margaret Murray Washington died in Tuskegee, Alabama. One of ten children born to sharecroppers, she spent much of her time reading and quickly excelled in school, enrolling in Fisk University, where she completed the college preparatory course in five years and college in four. She became the principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which later became Tuskegee University, and married Booker T. Washington in 1893. She also created the Tuskegee Woman's Club and merged local organizations with women clubs to help improve the values and liberation of womanhood in African-American women of the Jim Crow south.
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