Booker T. Washington was one of the most influential Black leaders of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Here are a few facts about this innovative educator.

Kenneth Morris, 50, happens to be the descendant of two very famous historical figures, Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass. The two families’ bloodlines were united when Nettie Hancock ...

The Resurrection Of Booker T. Washington Feb 06, 2009, 10:45am EST Jun 19, 2013, 04 ... Black people once had pictures of him in their homes in the same way they later had pictures of Martin ...

Booker T. Washington alumni Madison Hicks, 22, (left), Mason Manning, 22, (center left), Mykal Stromile (center right), and Alysia Johnson, 22, (right) now graduating seniors at the Juilliard School.

Dallas’ Booker T. Washington High School is celebrating 100 years, 45 as an arts magnet The school, which got its start way back in 1922, before becoming a major breeding ground for the ...

In the centennial year of Booker T. Washington's death, for our 50 Great Teachers project NPR Ed decided to look back at his leadership.

In every Rosenwald schoolhouse across the South hung a picture of Booker T. Washington. And by the early 1900s Washington’s popularity had grown immensely.

Booker T. Washington, left, was taken to the top of Mount Rubidoux by Mission Inn owner Frank Miller, right, when the educator and former slave visited Riverside on March 22, 1914.