Booker T. Washington was one of the most influential Black leaders of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Here are a few facts about this innovative educator.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOSTON, Nov. 22.-Booker T. Washington said to-night regarding the recent lynching of a negro in Colorado that the same class of people who begin to break the law by lynching a negro will soon ...

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.