Booker T. Washington was one of the most powerful ... 1901 publication of his best-selling autobiography, Up From Slavery. But Washington's philosophy of racial uplift was bitterly opposed ...

Booker T. Washington was a slave until he was freed ... on a U.S. postage stamp and on a 50-cent coin. He wrote Up From Slavery. . . He started Tuskegee Institute for former slaves and for their ...

On June 17, 1914, Mr. Washington made a visit to Batavia to speak at the First Presbyterian Church, invited by the ...

Morris is a great-great-grandson of Washington’s. (Photo by David Allen, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG) Booker T. Washington had a busy schedule when he visited Riverside on March 22 ...

Let’s review. Pressley, Booker, and colleagues are not demanding reparations from the Democrat Party for the number of Democratic Party platforms supporting slavery. There were six from 1840 ...

Booker T. Washington says he was born in either 1858 or 1859. In his book “Up from Slavery,” he writes, “I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure ...