While Booker T. Washington was not born in Alabama, his legacy impacts students here every day. Born as a slave named Booker Taliaferro in 1856, he changed his name to Booker Washington when he ...

Tuskegee celebrates its 114th anniversary on July 4, with the HBCU's unique legacy and connection to other Black institutions ...

Tuskegee University, founded on July 4, 1881, commemorates its 144th anniversary today. The institution began as the Tuskegee ...

Peggy Scott and T. Thomas Fortune are all the way south of the Mason Dixon line because they want to report on what Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute was accomplishing down south.

Booker T. Washington was one of the most powerful African Americans at the turn of the ... Through Tuskegee, Washington built a political machine based on the financial backing of a coalition of ...

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.

When Booker T. Washington arrived in Tuskegee in 1881 as a 25-year-old graduate from Hampton University, he was only 17 years removed from his own emancipation. The first thing he did when he arrived ...

Booker T. Washington, in establishing Tuskegee Institute, had a three-point plan -- education, based on critical thinking, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance. Education was not just about, as the ...

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.

The addressee was Booker T. Washington, Esq., Tuskegee, Alabama. 4 Teddy Roosevelt reached out to Booker T. Washington by letter at the beginning of his presidency.

Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee Institute. 702 Views Program ID: 321185-1 Category: Public Affairs Event Format: Speech Location: Macon, Georgia, United States. Purchase a Download ...