While Booker T. Washington was not ... he became the first Black person invited to eat at the White House. He died in 1915 and was buried at Tuskegee University in a brick tomb made by students ...

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 ...

Tuskegee was founded in 1881 by Dr. Booker T. Washington. Tuskegee attained University status ... It is the only historically black college or university in the nation designated as the location for ...