Carnegie was a large benefactor of the Tuskegee Institute under Booker T. Washington for African-American education.

* 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

Locals described him in admiration as the " Booker T. Washington of Charlotte ".

Other notable supporters include Newark Mayor Cory Booker, former Governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford, billionaire and American philanthropist John T. Walton, Former Mayor of Baltimore Kurt L. Schmoke, Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and John McCain.

In 1896, Booker T. Washington, the first principal and president of the Tuskegee Institute, invited Carver to head its Agriculture Department.

Knowing the potential ramifications on his presidential aspirations if such knowledge became public, Hoover struck a deal with Robert Russa Moton, the prominent African-American successor to Booker T. Washington as president of the Tuskegee Institute.

Booker T. Washington was the previous African-American to have dined at the White House, with Theodore Roosevelt in 1901.

Brown's recordings during this period influenced musicians across the industry, most notably groups such as Sly and the Family Stone, Funkadelic, Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Booker T. & the M. G.

* 1941 – Donald " Duck " Dunn, American musician ( Booker T. and the M. G.

* 1944 – Booker T. Jones, American musician and songwriter ( Booker T and the MG's )

Two weeks after Booker T. Washington came to visit Occidental, on March 27, 1914 — the school ’ s 25th anniversary — Swan, Fowler, and Johnson halls were dedicated at its new Eagle Rock campus.

The conditions in Sicilian sulfur mines were horrific, prompting Booker T. Washington to write " I am not prepared just now to say to what extent I believe in a physical hell in the next world, but a sulphur mine in Sicily is about the nearest thing to hell that I expect to see in this life .".

* 1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the " Atlanta Compromise " address.

* " Behave Yourself " – written by Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Jr. and Lewie Steinberg ; performed by Booker T. & the MG's

Taft met with and publicly endorsed Booker T. Washington's program for uplifting the African American race, advising them to stay out of politics at the time and emphasize education and entrepreneurship.

* October 16 – U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt invites African American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House.

** Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise speech.

* November 15 – Booker T. Washington, American educator ( b. 1856 )

* April 7 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

It really looked as if a change of the sort predicted by Booker T. Washington had been going on.

* 1938 – Booker Little, American jazz trumpeter ( d. 1961 )

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success ; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.

In contrast to literary prizes in the United States, the Booker Prize is greeted with great anticipation and fanfare.

The 2012 Man Booker Prize is to be awarded on 16 October 2012.

The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize, after the company Booker-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968 ; it became commonly known as the " Booker Prize " or simply " the Booker.

" When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, which opted to retain " Booker " as part of the official title of the prize.

The foundation is an independent registered charity funded by the entire profits of Booker Prize Trading Ltd., of which it is the sole shareholder.

The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £ 21, 000, and was subsequently raised to £ 50, 000 in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Man Group, making it one of the world's richest literary prizes.

The rules of the Booker changed in 1971 ; previously, it had been awarded retrospectively to books published prior to the year in which the award was given.

In 1971 the year of eligibility was changed to the same as the year of the award ; in effect, this meant that books published in 1970 were not considered for the Booker in either year.

The Booker Prize Foundation announced in January 2010 the creation of a special award called the " Lost Man Booker Prize ," with the winner chosen from a longlist of 22 novels published in 1970.

Alice Munro has a unique place in Booker Prize history ; The Beggar Maid is the only short story collection to have been shortlisted, doing so in 1980.

In 1972, the winning author John Berger, known for his Marxist worldview, protested during his acceptance speech against Booker McConnell.

The selection process for the winner of the prize commences with the formation of an advisory committee which includes an author, two publishers, a literary agent, a bookseller, a librarian, and a chairperson appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation.

In 1993 to mark the 25th anniversary it was decided to choose a Booker of Bookers Prize.

A similar prize known as The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the prize.

Booker T. Washington's house at Tuskegee University

On April 5, 1956, the hundredth anniversary of Washington's birth, the house where he was born in Franklin County, Virginia, was designated as the Booker T. Washington National Monument.

in JSTOR Documents Booker T. Washington's secret financing and directing of litigation against segregation and disfranchisement.

Documents Booker T. Washington's secret financing and directing of litigation against segregation and disfranchisement.

* Smith, David L. " Commanding Performance: Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise Address ".

* Booker T. Washington's West Virginia Boyhood

* Booker T. Washington's 1909 Tour of Virginia on the newly completed Virginian Railway

While in Tuskegee, she came in contact with Booker T. Washington's model of education and became disillusioned with it.

Chesnutt's views on race relations put him between Du Bois ' talented tenth and Booker Washington's separate but equal positions.

He was the founder and owner of People's Ice & Fuel Company, which had the distinction of being both the only black-owned and black-operated ice manufacturing company and the only black-owned and black-operated fuel company in the U. S. He also founded the Arkansas Negro Business League, an affiliate of Booker T. Washington's National Negro Business League ( NNBL ).

McKay left for the U. S. in 1912 to attend Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute.

Hill based his association on black fraternal organizations, the international trade union movement, and Booker T. Washington's National Negro Business League.

Additionally, Booker T. Washington's opposition drew support away from the group.

Booker T. Washington's autobiography asserts that Armstrong was " Christ-like " and " a perfect specimen of man, physically, intellectually, and morally.

" It is reported that after reading Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery, James E. Davis began a program of Winn-Dixie supporting historically Black colleges and universities.

They intended to provide an education to African Americans through the combining of academics and labor, in the industrial school model characteristic of Booker T. Washington's influential Tuskegee Institute.

An admirer of Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute for black Americans, Brown wanted to found a school for specifically white students, saying it should be " a school that will house thousands of these wonderful descendants of pure Anglo-Saxon stock.

The book comments on Frances Harper's novel Iola Leroy and Booker T. Washington's famous Atlanta Address of 1895.

It is here that Du Bois argues against Booker T. Washington's idea of focusing solely on industrial education for black men.

While editor of the Constitution in 1895, he sent out transcripts of Booker T. Washington's separate as the fingers speech across the country.

Booker T. Washington's athletic rival is Miami Northwestern High School.

* Booker T. Washington's website