Booker T. Washington was one of the most influential ... He worked in salt furnaces and coal mines as a child. Salt furnaces and coal mines in near Malden, West Virginia, around the turn of ...

Booker T. Washington’s first home was a one-room ... "[is] forbidden to a Negro child." He was told reading was "dangerous," but that only upped his curiosity. "From that moment I resolved ...

Booker T. Washington was born into slavery. As a small child, he would wish that he could go into the schoolhouse and learn to read. After enslaved people gained freedom, Booker's step-father ...

Booker T Washington National Monument is located in ... tobacco fields and transported grain to the mill. Washington was a ...

“Booker T. Washington… is advertised to speak at ... Mississippi. When Coleman was a child, he watched people of color sign their names with an X. He saw them suffer because they didn ...

“The question arises, shall a child be permitted to subsist on ... In 1942 the home was renamed for Booker T. Washington, an African-American leader who advocated a social philosophy of ...

“Booker T. Washington… is advertised to speak at ... Mississippi. When Coleman was a child, he watched people of color sign their names with an X. He saw them suffer because they didn ...