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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...