Booker Taliaferro Washington. Educator Booker T. Washington was one of the foremost African-American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founding the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now known as Tuskegee University.
You are visitor #1 million + since June 10, 1998. On May 18th, 1980 the eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington state disrupted the lives of thousands and changed more than 200 square miles of rich forest into a grey, lifeless landscape. Now, more than twenty-six years later, the land around the mountain is slowly healing.
Mount St Helens is located in the Cascade mountain range in the state of Washington in the United States and is famous for its devastating 1980 eruption, which killed 57 people.Among the dead were a geologist and others who were monitoring the volcano.he eruption of Mount St Helens and another volcano in Mexico called El Chichon two years later were the first times that pyroclastic flows â clouds of very hot gas, ash and rock that move at hundreds of miles per hour â were studied using modern scientific techniques.