BY: LEON KWASI KUNTUO-ASARE Booker Taliferro Washington, was born in Hale’s Ford, Virginia, somewhere around April 5, 1856. Like most slaves, exact records were not kept on his birth. His mother was an enslaved African-American woman named Jane, who worked on the James Burrough plantation, in southwest, Virginia , the identity of Booker’s father is unknown, but he was believed … Continue reading BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT : BOOKER T. WASHINGTON!