In his new book, "Teddy and Booker T: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality," Brian Kilmeade writes of how Theodore Roosevelt invited intellectual and former slave Book T ...

Juneteenth events at Booker T. Washington National Monument detail the life of the famous author and orator who was freed in ...

Booker T. Washington’s visit to Coleman College in Gibsland, according to The Guardian-Journal, “was the first visit the famous (Black) reformer ever made to this section and his coming was a ...

Booker T. Washington visited the school and gave a speech there in 1915 ... and an auditorium. Students studied algebra, geometry, Latin, English, music, chemistry, Bible study, choir, glee club, ...

Booker T. Washington’s first home was a one-room log cabin. Meals were "a piece of bread here and a scrap of meat there." He wore no shoes until he was 8.

Booker T. Washington died on November 14, 1915, of “elevated hypertension.” He had been in New York and, upon learning that he had little time left, was able to board a train to Tuskegee to ...

Booker T. Washington’s visit to Coleman College in Gibsland, according to The Guardian-Journal, “was the first visit the famous (Black) reformer ever made to this section and his coming was a ...