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 ...

The real Tuskegee Institute was founded on Independence Day 1881 as part of an agreement between a white politician, former Confederate Colonel W.F. Foster, and local Black leader Lewis Adams.

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.

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.

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 ...

Tuskegee was founded in 1881 by Dr. Booker T. Washington. ... Uganda, Egypt, and Tanzania to continue work of Dr. George Washington Carver in today's cutting-edge science and technology. CCTS ...

Booker T. Washington was an influential black intellectual and educator. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Institute for Colored Teachers.

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 ...

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does ...

American intellectual and former slave Booker T. Washington had a unique partnership with Teddy Roosevelt. The friendship between the two men would change America for the better.