While Booker T. Washington was not born in Alabama, ... Tuskegee Institute opened in 1881, ... he became the first Black person invited to eat at the White House.

The real Tuskegee Institute was founded on Independence Day 1881 as part of an agreement between a white politician, former Confederate Colonel W.F. Foster, and local Black leader Lewis Adams.

Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute. In May 1881, Armstrong recommended Washington to lead a new school in Tuskegee, Alabama, that would follow the Hampton model.

Ever since Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute in 1881, the small Southern town of Tuskegee, Alabama has been a mecca for African Americans. In 1999, Carolyn Quick Tillery , an alumna ...

A full five years after promising Booker T. Washington that he would come to Alabama to visit the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Theodore Roosevelt finally arrived.

Teddy Roosevelt reached out to Booker T. Washington by letter at the beginning of his presidency. Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. In his first week in the White House, while the nation ...

Teddy Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington ... Tuskegee Institute grew into the base from which Washington launched a national movement to improve the lives of Black Americans. By 1901, Washington ...

Booker T. Washington was an influential black intellectual and educator. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Institute for Colored Teachers.

Booker T. Washington, born into slavery, became a prominent educator, author, and civil rights leader. As a founder of the Tuskegee Institute, Washington emphasized practical education, the ...

PRESIDENT'S TUSKEGEE VISIT.; Booker T. Washington Confers with Him at White House About It. Share full article. June 17, 1905. Credit... The New York Times Archives.