When:
April 5, 2023 all-day
2023-04-05T00:00:00-06:00
2023-04-06T00:00:00-06:00
Where:
http://www.biography.com/people/booker-t-washington-9524663
Black educator and leader Booker Taliaferro Washington was born on 5 April 1856 at Franklin County, Virginia. “No race can prosper,” he wrote in Up from Slavery, “till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.” Died at Tuskegee, Alabama, 14 November, 1915.
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