Cortelyou confirmed that the President would wear formal attire that evening and advised Booker T. to do the same. Luckily, Booker T. had packed a black dress suit and he gave it to Mrs. McKinlay to send out for pressing. Meanwhile, there was ...
James "Shirt" Williams, a standout basketball player at Booker T. Washington High School and Xavier University, died Tuesday night of heart failure. He was 59. Williams, a forward, was a key player on Washington teams in the 1969-70 and '70-71 seasons that ...
CORPUS CHRISTI - The city has placed construction barricades in front of dilapidated Booker T. Washington school complex on the north side of town. As we reported last week, a survey of problems in the Hillcrest area revealed the building that does not ...
Book Review: Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation by Deborah Davis
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Published 10:24 p.m., Sunday, May 20, 2012
Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House...
Kathleen Parker, Washington PostThe past several days of Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s life have been painfully amusing to watch.Painful because Booker, a rising Democratic star, is such a good guy. Amusing, because rarely are Americans treated to such premier seats in the political theater of truth and consequence.That is, tell the truth and beware the consequences.Booker has gained much unwelcome attention from his own political party, while...