Booker T. Washington says he was born in either 1858 or 1859. In his book “Up from Slavery,” he writes, “I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure ...

(WDBJ) - The Booker T. Washington National Monument is where ... on a U.S. postage stamp and on a 50-cent coin. He wrote Up From Slavery. . . He started Tuskegee Institute for former slaves ...

22News had the opportunity to talk with Nettie Washington Douglass, the great-great-granddaughter of Frederick Douglass and great-granddaughter of Booker T. Washington. Nettie is also a co-founder ...

Born into slavery in Virginia in 1856, Booker T. Washington was a prominent African ... the house came of a childhood memory. Growing up in 1960s Selma, Alabama, Abidally would take school trips ...

he came upon the autobiography of Booker T. Washington, the conservative dean of American black leaders. It was while reading Up from Slavery, Garvey said, that he developed his vision for the ...

The boys basketball coach had just led Tulsa Booker T. Washington to a state title. As the Hornets looked up to the crowd and showed off the gold ball to roaring cheers, it was almost too much f ...

Booker T. Washington was one of the most powerful African Americans at the turn of the twentieth century. Born a slave in Hale's Ford, Virginia, the son of a white man who did not acknowledge him ...