Booker T. Washington, the Tuskegee Institute and New York City

The story of one of the late 19th-early 20th century most influential African American leaders. Love him or hate him, his voice was an important part of American history.

(Booker T. Washington and President Theodore Roosevelt at Tuskegee, 1905)

Booker Taliaferro Washington was the most famous black man in America between 1890 and 1915. He was the voice of the Negro in the United States during that time; the leader of a group of Americans who found themselves free, after centuries of slavery, but generally without power, a…