Booker T. Washington Elementary School and Segregated Education in Virginia

Booker T. Washington National Monument, located in Franklin County, Virginia, is preserved in public ownership as the birthplace and childhood home of Booker T. Washington, a slave who became a prominent educator and influential African- American leader in the period between 1895 and 1915. Developed in the 1940s as a private memorial and added as a unit of the National Park System in 1956, the site’s early history as a memorial is itself a subject of interest and importance.