He died in 1915 and was buried at Tuskegee University in a brick tomb made my students with a view of the campus.

Booker T. Washington was one of the most powerful African Americans at the turn of the twentieth century. Born a slave in Hale's Ford, Virginia, the son of a white man who did not acknowledge him ...

(KTAL/KMSS) – When it comes to Black education in post-Civil War America, fewer men had more of an influence in Northwest ...