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 ...

The National Business League (NBL), the nation's first and oldest Black business organization, founded by Booker ...

Complete Guide to Booker T. Washington National Monument ... to the school to be a teacher. When the Tuskegee National and Industrial Institute was founded Washington was nominated to be the ...

Finding your past with the Amistad Research Center: The story of Elma Moore Booker One ... salt furnaces, Washington attended Hampton Institute. He founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama ...

The National Alliance for Black Business (NABB)®, co-founded by the National Business League (NBL)®, National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC)®, and The World Conference of Mayors (WCM)®, proudly ...

This milestone is a testament to over a century of advocacy for Black economic independence, tracing back to Booker T. Washington's founding of the National Business League in 1900. His vision of ...