For Black History Month, a family member of a prominent figure in history was at the Springfield Museum of History.

He died in 1915 and was buried at Tuskegee University in a brick tomb made my students with a view of the campus.

Booker T. Washington was one of the most powerful African Americans at the turn of the twentieth century. Born a slave in Hale's Ford, Virginia, the son of a white man who did not acknowledge him ...

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As far as the area's best, the Booker T. Washington girls basketball team is No. 17 in the state, and sits near the top of Class 5A. Jay is next at No. 63 overall, ranked fourth in Rural.