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Bishop Chester Thompson spoke to the Camden Noon Lion's Club last week about local history and the work the Zion Hill Summer ...
Gov. Wes Moore’s veto of a reparations bill is echoes Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise of 1895, both strategic ...
A hometown park is celebrating over a century of history, growth and tradition with a special gift from Roanoke City leaders ...
by Liam Bridgeman Mon, June 23rd 2025 at 6:18 PM WCYB Photo TOPICS: McKinney Center Booker T. Washington Alumni Exhibit Interviews Jonesborough African American History ...
When David graduated from Duke Law in 1964, more opportunities were available for Black students and the Federal Reserve Board in Washington hired him as its first African American attorney. David ...
The Ella L. Jordan African American History Museum will host its second annual Emancipation Day observance from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. May 18 Florida's Emancipation Day preceded the June 19, 1865, final ...
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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.
Booker T. Washington was an American educator, author and also the founder of Tuskegee University in 1881, an institution for higher education for black students. “Learning something new, I love it.
ATLANTA — The Georgia Historical Society unveiled a new historical marker in Atlanta about Booker T. Washington High School on Tuesday. The marker is the newest addition to the society's Georgia ...
For American education, one of those alliances started in the early 20th century. That’s when a ludicrously successful retailer-turned-philanthropist, Julius Rosenwald, met the prominent educator ...
NORFOLK, Va. — Yvonne Wagner is proud to be a part of the Class of 1969 from Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk. For Wagner, the school, which is now more than a hundred years old, isn ...