PROGRAMMING ALERT: On Saturday, December 23, watch "Teddy & Booker T" at 9 pm ET and 2 am ET. Hosted by anchor and author Brian Kilmeade tells the story of how President Theodore Roosevelt and ...

Teddy Roosevelt reached out to Booker T. Washington by letter at the beginning of his presidency. Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. In his first week in the White House, while the nation ...

Booker T. Washington, left, and W.E.B. Du Bois, right, were two intellectual Black Americans who had differing aspirations for their people in the early 20th Century. (AFRO Archive Photo) ...

Booker T. Washington, through his works and deeds and the sheer power of his inspirational ideas, has pulled millions of people up, including academics like us – for which we are forever grateful.

Booker T. Washington--the prototypical sellout, we are told. Black History 101 pits him against a W.E.B. Du Bois nobly crusading against "the color line" while Washington delighted white backers ...

The famous schoolbook, written by Noah Webster, was "almost like a Bible lesson, a civic lesson and a reading lesson rolled into one," says Smock, author of Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership ...

In his book, [Booker T. Washington's Boyhood American D… From the age of nine until he left to attend Hampton Institute, Booker T. Washington lived just outside of Charleston, West Vvirginia.

The comment about Booker T. Washington led me to go back to look at the philosophy and work of Booker T. Washington and the controversies that surrounded him. By Larry Miller Special to ...