A hometown park is celebrating over a century of history, growth and tradition with a special gift from Roanoke City leaders ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Booker T. Washington was with the President for a considerable time to-day in the Cabinet room, and after the conversation he went away with Secretary Hitchcock.