While Booker T. Washington was not born in Alabama, his legacy impacts students here every day. Born as a slave named Booker Taliaferro in 1856, he changed his name to Booker Washington when he ...

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.

Peggy Scott and T. Thomas Fortune are all the way south of the Mason Dixon line because they want to report on what Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute was accomplishing down south.

The addressee was Booker T. Washington, Esq., Tuskegee, Alabama. 4. Teddy Roosevelt reached out to Booker T. Washington by letter at the beginning of his presidency.

Tuskegee University, founded on July 4, 1881, commemorates its 144th anniversary today. The institution began as the Tuskegee ...

Teddy Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington can teach today's Americans how to overcome ... in 1881 he became the head of the brand-new Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, a training school for Black ...

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.

TUSKEGEE, Ala. (WSFA) - The great-granddaughter of Booker T. Washington, one of the founders of Tuskegee University, made her return to campus for the first time in several years for homecoming.

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.