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 ...

The Friends of Booker T. Washington State Park hosted the fourth annual Sunset at the Pointe fundraiser on Saturday, April 5. The event took place at 4 p.m. at Booker T. Washington State Park, ...

Booker T. Washington h.'96, president of Tuskegee ... "by walking and begging rides both in wagons and in cars" to Hampton Institute from which he graduated in 1875, later becoming an instructor ...