Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune ... Mary Jane McLeod was born free. Both her mother and father, Patsy and Samuel McLeod, had been enslaved on the McIntosh ...

Booker T. Washington was one of the most powerful African Americans at the turn of the twentieth century. Born a slave in Hale's Ford, Virginia, the son of a white man who did not acknowledge him ...