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 ...

The National Business League (NBL), the nation's first and oldest Black business organization, founded by Booker ...

Complete Guide to Booker T. Washington National Monument ... to the school to be a teacher. When the Tuskegee National and Industrial Institute was founded Washington was nominated to be the ...

Finding your past with the Amistad Research Center: The story of Elma Moore Booker One ... salt furnaces, Washington attended Hampton Institute. He founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama ...

and the town has long been influenced toward liberalism by the presence of a community of Negro scholars and students at Tuskegee Institute, founded in 1881 by Booker T. Washington. Last week ...

The National Alliance for Black Business (NABB)®, co-founded by the National Business League (NBL)®, National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC)®, and The World Conference of Mayors (WCM)®, proudly ...