The Gilded Age Season 2 Episode 5 “His Grace the Duke” introduces us to more than one great, influential man. While Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) finds herself cooing over the fictional Duke of ...

Ever since Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute in 1881, the small Southern town of Tuskegee, Alabama has been a mecca for African Americans. In 1999, Carolyn Quick Tillery, an alumna ...

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 ...

5. Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute. In May 1881, Armstrong recommended Washington to lead a new school in Tuskegee, Alabama, that would follow the Hampton model. The Alabama ...

Here is an excerpt: A full five years after promising Booker T. Washington that he would come to Alabama to visit the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Theodore Roosevelt finally arrived.

Andrew Carnegie has donated $600,000 toward the endowment of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama, and for a life income for its President, Booker T. Washington, and his wife.

Booker T. Washington had a busy schedule when he visited Riverside on March 22, 1914. Over the course of the day he gave four ...

TUSKEGEE, Ala. (WSFA) - The great-granddaughter of Booker T. Washington, one of the founders of Tuskegee University, made her return to campus for the first time in several years for homecoming.

Booker T. Washington’s first home was a one-room ... in 1881 he became the head of the brand-new Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, a training school for Black educators. First, though, he had ...

Booker T. Washington’s impact on the African ... Ph.D. From developing and guiding the Tuskegee Institute to creating the National Negro Business League, the educator and philanthropist had ...

“Shall the labor unions use their influence to deprive the black man of his opportunity to labor… [or] unite with those who want to give every man, regardless of color, race or creed, what ...