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Booker T. Washington University in 1896 and an honorary doctorate from Dartmouth College in 1901. At the center of Tuskegee University, the Booker T. Washington Monument was dedicated in 1922. Called "Lifting the Veil", the monument has an inscription reading: In 1934 Robert Russa Moton, Washington's successor as president of Tuskegee University, arranged an air tour for two African-American aviators. Afterward the plane was renamed as the "Booker T. Washington". On April 7, 1940, Washington became the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp. In 1942, the liberty ship "Booker T. Washington" was named in his honor, the
Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington Booker Taliaferro Washington ( – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Washington was a key proponent of African-American businesses