Booker T. Washington High School

Booker T. Washington High School refers to several schools in the United States named after the African-American education pioneer Booker T. Washington:

  • Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama
  • Booker T. Washington High School (Tuskegee, Alabama) in Tuskegee, Alabama
  • Booker T. Washington High School (Miami, Florida) in Miami, Florida
  • Booker T. Washington High School (Pensacola, Florida) in Pensacola, Florida
  • Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Georgia) in Atlanta, Georgia, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Fulton County, Georgia
  • Booker T. Washington Public Charter School (Washington, D.C.) in Washington, D.C.
  • Booker T. Washington High School (Shreveport, Louisiana) in Shreveport, Louisiana
  • Booker T. Washington High School (Tulsa, Oklahoma) in Tulsa, Oklahoma
  • Booker T. Washington High School (Columbia, South Carolina) in Columbia, South Carolina
  • Booker T. Washington High School (Memphis, Tennessee) in Memphis, Tennessee
  • Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas
  • Booker T. Washington High School (Houston, Texas) in Houston, Texas
  • Booker T. Washington High School (Norfolk, Virginia) in Norfolk, Virginia
  • Booker T. Washington High School (London, West Virginia), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Kanawha County, West Virginia
  • (Booker T. Washington High School (New Orleans, Louisiana) historical landmark site in New Orlans, La.

Past Schools:

  • Booker T. Washington High School (Wichita Falls, Texas) formerly of Wichita Falls, Texas, defunct in 1969

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    “No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
    —Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)

    “A Republic! Look in the history of the Earth ... To be the first man—not the Dictator, not the Sylla, but the Washington or the Aristides, the leader in talent and truth—is next to the Divinity!”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “For thou, O Spring! canst renovate
    All that high God did first create.
    Be still his arm and architect,
    Rebuild the ruin, mend defect.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Obviously, it’s a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.”
    —Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)