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, born into slavery, became a prominent educator, author, and civil rights leader. As a founder of the Tuskegee Institute, Washington emphasized practical education, the ...

Booker T. Washington, left, was taken to the top of Mount Rubidoux by Mission Inn owner Frank Miller, right, when the educator and former slave visited Riverside on March 22, 1914.

A review of All Brave Sailors: The Story of the S. S. Booker T. Washington, by John Beecher. Beecher is impressed by that warmth of human relationships so often noted by writers when they venture ...