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 ...

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.

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.

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.

Teddy Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington can teach today's Americans how to overcome ... in 1881 he became the head of the brand-new Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, a training school for Black ...

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.

PRESIDENT'S TUSKEGEE VISIT.; Booker T. Washington Confers with Him at White House About It. Share full article. June 17, 1905. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

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 ...