Who was Booker T. Washington? Check His Early Life, Career, and Lasting Legacy!

Discover the life of Booker T. Washington. Learn why he was an influential African-American leader, get to know his early ...

160 years marked since emancipation of Booker T. Washington

The Franklin County native was born into slavery and rose to become a prominent figure for African American education.
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Uncle Tom or new Negro? : African Americans reflect on Booker T. Washington and Up from slavery one hundred years later / edited by Rebecca Carroll

Dr. Bill E. Lawson, philosophy scholar -- Elizabeth Gardner Hines, writer/great-grandniece of A.G. Gaston -- Ronald Walters, director of the African American leadership Institute -- Lucina ...
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New exhibit at Mosaic Cultural Center about the African American education history

The Mosaic Cultural Center in Little Rock is hosting a photographic exhibit, "A Better Life for Their Children," which ...
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New Booker T. Washington memorial in the works

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The state’s Booker T. Washington Commemorative Commission held a meeting Tuesday to discuss plans for a new monument. Franklin County is where Booker T. Washington was born and ...
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The black presidential nightmare : African-Americans and presidents, 1789-2016 / Christopher Brian Booker

The founding fathers and African Americans in the Post-Colonial Era -- John Quincy Adams, the Jackson Era and the slave power -- The growing crisis of slavery and American presidents (1840-1861) -- ...