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.

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.

Booker T. Washington, in establishing Tuskegee Institute, had a three-point plan -- education, based on critical thinking, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance. Education was not just about, as the ...

Booker T. Washington was one of the most powerful African Americans at the turn of the ... Through Tuskegee, Washington built a political machine based on the financial backing of a coalition of ...

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.

This was more than all of the white public college students in Alabama combined, said professor Robert Norrell, author of Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington. The Tuskegee Institute ...

When Tuskegee Institute today's Tuskegee University was formed in Alabama in 1881, it was Hampton's founder, Gen. Samuel C. Armstrong, who recommended 25-year-old Booker T. Washington head the new ...

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 ...

It is easy to envy Booker T. Washington. ... After his epochal address to the Atlanta Exposition in 1895, pundits proclaimed him Leader of His Race, the Wizard of Tuskegee.

Booker T. Washington, “An Address Before the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences,” in The Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 7: 1903–4, ed, Louis R. Harlan and Raymond W. Smock ...