Booker T. Washington was ... first principal of the newly-founded Tuskegee Institute, a school for African Americans in Tuskegee, Alabama. At Tuskegee, Washington developed a vocational curriculum ...

Four years later, Booker T. Washington died of congestive heart failure; he literally worked himself to death. He died at his desk and is buried on the campus of his beloved Tuskegee Institute. His ...

Clark, who is Dean of the woman's department of Tuskegee Institute ... where she accompanied Miss Portia Washington, daughter of Booker T. Washington, to Berlin, where she will study music.

The undertaking was a partnership between Black scholar Booker T. Washington, head of Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute, and businessman Julius Rosenwald, the president and eventually chairman of Sears, ...

Booker T. Washington had a busy schedule when he visited Riverside on March 22, 1914. Over the course of the day he gave four speeches. In each he talked about his childhood as a slave, the ...