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

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 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.

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

In a consideration of all the roles Hermes was understood to have fulfilled in ancient Greece Christopher Booker gives the genius of the god to be a guide or observer of transition.

Booker Taliaferro Washington ( April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915 ) was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to Republican presidents.

Booker T. Washington did not understand that his program was perceived as subversive of a natural order in which black people were to remain forever subordinate or unfree.

In 1942, the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington was named in his honor, the first major oceangoing vessel to be named after an African American.

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.

At the center of the campus at Tuskegee University, the Booker T. Washington Monument, called " Lifting the Veil ," was dedicated in 1922.

Still, the dedication ceremony was a powerful tribute to her memory, and Booker T. Washington delivered the keynote address.

Her novel Quartet in Autumn ( 1977 ) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Her comeback novel, Quartet in Autumn ( 1977 ), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and her work found new audiences in the United States.

After almost-but-not-quite-being-accepted by Tribune ( a Labour-supporting journal edited by Michael Foot, Paul ’ s uncle ), Rushton found a place at the Liberal News, which was also employing Christopher Booker as a journalist.

* 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.

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

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

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.

Another speculation is that the word may have been inspired by the 1960 hit song " Gonzo " by New Orleans rhythm and blues pianist James Booker.

This last possibility seems to be supported by the 2007 oral biography of Thompson, which states that the term is taken from a song by Booker ; though, it does not explain why Thompson or Cardoso would have chosen the term to describe Thompson's journalism.

According to a Greg Johnson biographical note on Booker, the song title " Gonzo " comes from a character in a movie called The Pusher, which in turn may have been inspired by a 1956 Evan Hunter novel of the same title.

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

* List of books written by Booker T. Washington

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.

Leedy was discovered on the playground of the Booker T. Washington school in Phoenix, AZ by a talent scout from the Disney studio.

* The 2011 novel " The Stranger's Child " by Booker prize winning British novelist Alan Hollinghurst features fictional War Poet Cecil Valance who shares characteristics of, though is not as talented as, Brooke.

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 ).

It featured melancholic and melodic horns, organ, bass, and drums, as heard in recordings by Hi's Al Green and Stax's Booker T. & the M. G .' s.

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

He met Booker in a rematch, and reached the same conclusion as their first meeting had: another 10 round draw.

On that same day, he meets his new best friend, Louis Booker ( Anthony Anderson ), who saves him from drowning.

" At the same time, an important paper by Booker and Bretherton ( 1967 ) appeared, which Lindzen read with great interest.

Byas also recorded with Beryl Booker in the same year.

Upon winning the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2003 he became the first writer ever to receive a Booker and a Whitbread for the same book.

In the same year he was also Chair of Judges for the Man Booker Prize.

Drummer Aly, guitarist Kenny Withrow, and percussionist John Bush went to the same arts magnet high school in Dallas, Texas, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

After doing so, he stole Booker T's Legends belt, then went on a rampage of weekly consecutive backstage sneak attacks on Booker T, which ended once Booker ( with Scott Steiner ) goaded him into trying the same in the ring in order to get him ( kayfabe ) arrested.

* Mr. Stevens, the protagonist of Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize winning novel, The Remains of the Day and movie of the same name.

" In the first article Mr Booker gives the impression that it was ' faint bruising ' which prompted the parents to take L to hospital and which gave rise to what he clearly regards as the over-zealous and unjustified actions of social workers working for the same local authority so recently criticised by me in Re X, Y and Z ( Children ).

In his second article Mr Booker asserts as fact that in this case ' the council has depended, in its campaign to seize this baby, on the same controversial paediatrician about whom the judge was so excoriatory '...

" The result is a more laid-back and funky groove that's soulful but potent at the same time, fusing ' 70s blaxploitation sounds, Jimmy Smith-style jazz figures, and Booker T .- influenced R & B workouts into one solid package " is the way Mark Deming described the album.

I imagine there was titillation involved, too: ‘ Tell us what it's like to be a slave .’ The same continued into the 20th century: ‘ Tell us what it's like to be a Negro .’ ‘ Up From Slavery ,’ by Booker T. Washington, arrived on the scene, but Richard Wright's " Black Boy " really did the trick.

Booker also combined with Marcus Robinson to become the 15th tandem in Bears history to record receiving games in the same contest.

Australian novelist Peter Carey won the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize the same year for the True History of the Kelly Gang.

# " Melting Pot " ( cover of song of the same name by Booker T. & the M. G.

About the same time, a new Booker T. Washington High School was built on the site of the old school on Chestnut Avenue.

Father and Son partially inspired the 1988 novel Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey, that won the Booker Prize the same year, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award.

The novel Daniel Stein, Translator by renowned Russian writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya was inspired by the life of Oswald Rufeisen .< ref > Interview at ' MAN Booker International Prize ', NDR Kultur, 26 May 2009: " The Russian author Ulitzkaja speaking about her newest book described ' Daniel Stein ' as a literature character but at the same time as an historical one: << The real Brother Daniel, whose civil name was Oswald Rufeisen, and my character Daniel Stein are not identical.