In 1968, the Staple Singers signed to Stax Records and released two albums with Steve Cropper and Booker T & the MG's — Soul Folk in Action and We'll Get Over.

Avant signed Withers to a record deal and assigned Booker T. Jones to produce Withers ' first album.

Also signed on to the record label was the house band Booker T. and the MG ’ s who were breaking boundaries in integration.

Booker signed as a free agent with the Bills in 1962 and stepped into a starting role at left cornerback.

Lyall signed a contract in 1964 by the investments group Booker similar to one they had signed with Ian Fleming.

Long reigned as General Manager for 3years ( April 7, 2009-April 1 2012 ) and He is still currently signed to WWE Smackdown as Booker T's Senior Adviser.

He was signed by the team in March and given a chance to earn the team's No. 3 receiver job behind starters Chris Chambers and Marty Booker.

Booker and his brother Lash signed with World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) in the mid-1990s.

Following the 2006 CFL season, Booker signed to play indoor football with the Montgomery Bears of the American Indoor Football Association.

The station was programed by the late Dave Klahr and signed on by its first morning host Peter Booker who later programmed Greater Media sister station WMJC, Detroit and is now CEO of Delmarva broadcasting Company.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

In 1927, the Gennett studios in Richmond, Indiana, made a recording of black fiddler Jim Booker with other instrumentalists ; their recordings were labeled " made for Hillbilly " in the Gennett files, and were marketed to a white audience.

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.

Booker T. Washington with his third wife Margaret and two sons.

Vardaman described the White House as " so saturated with the odor of the nigger that the rats have taken refuge in the stable ", and declared " I am just as much opposed to Booker T. Washington as a voter as I am to the cocoanut-headed, chocolate-colored typical little coon who blacks my shoes every morning.

The album, produced by Ethan Johns ( who has previously worked with Kings Of Leon, Rufus Wainwright and Laura Marling ), would include covers of songs by Bob Dylan, John Lee Hooker and Billy Joe Shaver, and feature such guest musicians as Booker T.

He also contributed to the satirical rag, The Wallopian with Ingrams, Foot, Booker mocking school spirit, traditions and the masters.

* Private Eye On London By Private Eye Rushton with Christopher Booker and Richard Ingrams ( Weidenfeld And Nicolson 1962 )

* Private Eye's Romantic England And Other Unlikely Stories: A Miscellany-The Last Days Of Macmilian Rushton with Christopher Booker and Richard Ingrams ( Weidenfeld And Nicolson 1963 )

* The Penguin Private Eye Rushton with Christopher Booker and Richard Ingrams ( Penguin, 1965 )

* October 20, 1956: New York City, New York A junior high school student was wounded in the forearm yesterday by another student armed with a home-made weapon at Booker T. Washington Junior High School.

The vast majority of Stax releases were backed by house bands Booker T and the MGs ( with Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, and Al Jackson ) and the Memphis Horns ( the splinter horn section of the Mar-Keys ).

The trilogy was greeted with considerable acclaim, with The Ghost Road being awarded the Booker Prize in the year of its publication.

The album Far Cry contains his famous performance of the Gross-Lawrence standard " Tenderly " on alto saxophone, and his subsequent tour of Europe quickly set high standards for solo performance with his exhilarating bass clarinet renditions of Billie Holiday's " God Bless the Child " ( the earliest known version was recorded at the Five Spot during his residency with Booker Little ).

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

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

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

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

* Washington, Booker T. The Atlanta Cotton States Exposition Address ( Sep, 1895 ).

* Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta " Compromise " Speech from the American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning ( Graduate Center, CUNY ) and the Center for History and New Media ( George Mason University )

Along with Du Bois, Trotter was a charter member of the Niagara Movement in 1905, an organization of African Americans who renounced the ideas set forth in Booker T. Washington ’ s " Atlanta Compromise " speech of 1895.

At the Buffalo Wing Festival in Buffalo, NY, Ms. Thomas lost to Eric " Badlands " Booker in a chicken wing contest and then lost a waffle eating contest in Atlanta the next day to the fast-rising rookie Joey Chestnut, giving her a two event losing streak to replace her winning streak.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Russell went to Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta and attended the University of Cincinnati for one semester in 1943.

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

* September 18 – Booker T. Washington delivers his Atlanta Compromise address at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia.

Clendenon graduated as a letterman in nine sports at Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Georgia, and received a host of scholarship offers.

But the event is best remembered for the both hailed and criticized " Atlanta Compromise " speech given by Booker T. Washington on September 18, promoting racial cooperation.

Booker T. Washington giving " Atlanta Compromise " speech

The Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition Speech was an address on the topic of race relations given by Booker T. Washington on September 18, 1895 at the exposition.