by Mr. Bang

I am writing about the Booker T. Washington Monument.  He was a slave and when the Civil War was over he got freed from slavery.  He was nine years old when it happened.  He taught himself to read.  He became a teacher who taught African-Americans.  He started a school that’s in Alabama called Tuskegee University.

There was a paper fan that fanned the table.  It was one of his chores, while he barely had any food.  The paper fan kept flies away from the master’s food.

As a child he lived there, and you’ll get to see his home if you go.  It’s a replica.  Oh, and there’s turkeys.