Juneteenth events at Booker T. Washington National Monument detail the life of the famous author and orator who was freed in ...

It’s been 160 years since the Emancipation of Booker T. Washington; a Franklin County native born into slavery, who became a ...

From World War I until JFK and Camelot, African-American children lived at the McLean County Home for Colored Children, later renamed for Booker T. Washington, on Bloomington’s far west side.

The Fort Salonga summer home of Booker T. Washington, in a state of disrepair and in danger of falling into Long Island Sound, is mired in red tape. Newsday's Arielle Dollinger reports.

Booker T. Washington’s first home was a one-room log cabin. Meals were "a piece of bread here and a scrap of meat there." He wore no shoes until he was 8. Brutalizing punishment was a fact of life.

A house stuck in time, Booker T. Washington's Fort Salonga summer home is covered in white shingles speckled with gray patches. Silvering wood boards with a wavy grain conceal the windows.

Even before Booker reached home in New York ... he would not bow to the pressure and distance himself from Washington. But Roosevelt couldn’t quite put the episode behind him as the papers ...

Booker T. Washington was one of the most influential ... build almost 5000 schools between 1917 and 1932, plus teachers’ homes, industrial buildings, and privies. Staff from Tuskegee Institute ...

Booker T. Washington is expanding its Juneteenth celebration to a three-day event starting June 20 in honor of the 160th ...