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The following is a list of things and places named after American educator

Booker T. Washington Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American c ...

Places

Parks

* Booker T. Washington State Park – situated on the shores of

Chickamauga Lake Chickamauga Lake is a reservoir in the United States along the Tennessee River created when the Chickamauga Dam, as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority, was completed in 1940. The lake stretches from Watts Bar Dam at mile 529.9 (853 km) ...

Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...

* Booker T. Washington State Park – former state park in

West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the B ...

* Booker T. Washington Park – Midland, Texas * Booker T. Washington Park – Charlottesville, Virginia * Booker T. Washington Park -

Altoona, Pennsylvania Altoona is a city in Blair County, Pennsylvania. It is the principal city of the Altoona Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The population was 43,963 at the time of the 2020 Census, making it the eighteenth most populous city in Pennsylvania. T ...

* Booker T. Washington Center -

Booker T. Washington Park
– on the campus of

West Virginia State University West Virginia State University (WVSU) is a public historically black, land-grant university in Institute, West Virginia. Founded in 1891 as the West Virginia Colored Institute, it is one of the original 19 land-grant colleges and universities ...

Schools

Colleges

* Booker T. Washington Junior College in Pensacola, Florida

High schools

* Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in

Montgomery, Alabama Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. Named for the Irish soldier Richard Montgomery, it stands beside the Alabama River, on the coastal Plain of the Gulf of Mexico. In the 202 ...

* Booker T. Washington High School in

Tuskegee, Alabama Tuskegee () is a city in Macon County, Alabama, United States. It was founded and laid out in 1833 by General Thomas Simpson Woodward, a Creek War veteran under Andrew Jackson, and made the county seat that year. It was incorporated in 1843. ...

Booker T. Washington Public Charter School Booker T. Washington Public Charter School was a 501c3 non-profit charter high school chartered by the District of Columbia Public Schools.It operated from 1999 to 2014 The Booker T. Washington Public Charter School opened for the 1999-2000 schoo ...

in Washington, District of Columbia * Booker T. Washington High School (Miami, Florida) *

Booker T. Washington High School (Pensacola, Florida) Booker T. Washington High School is a secondary school currently located at 6000 College Parkway in Pensacola, Florida, Pensacola, Florida, and is part of the Escambia County School District. It was named after the African-American education pione ...

* Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Georgia), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Fulton County *

Booker T. Washington High School (Shreveport, Louisiana) Booker T. Washington New Technology High School is a high school in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States named after the educational pioneer Booker T. Washington. Caddo Parish Public Schools operates the school. History In 1945, educational fac ...

* Booker T. Washington High School (Tulsa, Oklahoma) * Booker T. Washington High School in

Columbia, South Carolina Columbia is the List of capitals in the United States, capital of the U.S. state of South Carolina. With a population of 136,632 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is List of municipalities in South Carolina, the second-largest ...

* Booker T. Washington High School (Memphis, Tennessee) * Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in

Dallas Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

Booker T. Washington High School (Houston, Texas) Booker T. Washington High School (nicknamed "Booker T.") is a secondary school located in the Independence Heights community in Houston, Texas. Washington serves grades 9 through 12, and is a part of the Houston Independent School District. The s ...

Booker T. Washington High School (Norfolk, Virginia) Booker T. Washington High School, also known as Booker T or BTW, is a public high school located in Norfolk, Virginia. It is administered by Norfolk Public Schools system. The school colors are maroon, white and gold. The school is called “The ...

Booker T. Washington High School (London, West Virginia) Booker T. Washington High School, also known as Grant Junior High School and Grant Elementary, is a historic high school building located near London, Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was built in 1925, and is a two-story, "L"-shaped wire brick ...

, listed on the NRHP in Kanawha County * Booker T. Washington High School (Rocky Mount, NC)

Middle schools

* Booker T. Washington Middle School (Baltimore) —

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Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...

* Booker T. Washington Middle School (Newport News) — Newport News, Virginia * Booker T. Washington Middle School (New York) —

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...

, New York * Booker T. Washington Elementary School (Hobbs) — Hobbs, New Mexico

Past schools

* Booker T. Washington High School (New Orleans) – considered a historic landmark; abandoned after 2005's Hurricane Katrina. * Booker T. Washington High School in Wichita Falls, Texas – closed in 1969, later serving as Washington-Jackson Math & Science Center. * Booker T. Washington High School for Coloreds in Staunton, Virginia – from 1936 to 1966, now serving as the Booker T. Washington Community Center. * Booker T. Washington Middle School in Wichita Falls, Texas – closed in 1970. * Booker T. Washington Middle School in Tampa, Florida – closed in 2004. (Note: Tampa has a B.T. Washington Elementary School.)

Other things

Facilities, other than public schools

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* Booker T. Washington Bridge, over the

Hampton River The Hampton River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 tidal estuary which empties into Hampton Roads near its mouth. Hampton Roads in turn empties into th ...

near Washington's '' alma mater'', Hampton University of Virginia

Vehicles

* SS ''Booker T. Washington'', World War II

liberty ship Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Though British in concept, the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost construction. Ma ...

* ''Booker T. Washington'', 1930s airplane named at the request of

Robert Russa Moton Robert Russa Moton (August 26, 1867 – May 31, 1940) was an American educator and author. He served as an administrator at Hampton Institute. In 1915 he was named principal of Tuskegee Institute, after the death of founder Booker T. Washington, ...

, Washington's successor

Geographical features

* Mount Booker, in

Washington (state) Washington (), officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. Named for George Washington—the first U.S. president—the state was formed from the western part of the Washingt ...

References

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