Booker T. Washington was one of the most influential Black leaders of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Here are a few facts about this innovative educator.

The Booker T. Washington National Monument is commemorating 160 years since his emancipation. The event showcases how the monument is bringing Washington’s story to life through reflection ...

Booker T. Washington Class of 2025 graduates walk across the stage at the Pensacola Bay Center during Commencement on May 27, 2025. ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - It’s been 160 years since the Emancipation of Booker T. Washington; a Franklin County native born into slavery, who became a monumental figure in African American ...

The Booker T. Washington was the first American vessel commissioned under a Negro master; her crew consisted of veterans of the Spanish civil war and the labor movement, old seamen, ship’s ...

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.

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - It’s been 160 years since the emancipation of Booker T. Washington; a Franklin County native born into slavery, who became a monumental figure in African American ...

The Booker T. Washington Recreation Center has served as the Sapulpa community center for more than 50 years. Before that, it was a school for the African American community during segregation.

In every Rosenwald schoolhouse across the South hung a picture of Booker T. Washington. And by the early 1900s Washington’s popularity had grown immensely.

On the boys side, Booker T. Washington remains the state's – and area's – best, sitting at No. 1 in Florida with a rating of 24.804 and an 11-0-1 record, just above Mandarin (23.784).

BOSTON, Nov. 22.-Booker T. Washington said to-night regarding the recent lynching of a negro in Colorado that the same class of people who begin to break the law by lynching a negro will soon ...

Vincent Grayson, 57, head boys basketball coach at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston ISD for nearly 20 years, was charged as the organizer of the cheating scheme.