Booker T. Washington papers, 1853-1946

Collection Summary

Title	Booker T. Washington papers, 1853-1946
Inclusive Dates	1853-1946
Bulk Dates	1900-1915
ID No.	MSS44669
Creator	Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
Extent	375,550 items
Extent	1062 containers plus 8 oversize
Extent	429.3 linear feet
Extent	762 microfilm reels
Language	Collection material in English
Location	Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998017
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78044669
Summary	African-American leader, educator, and author. Correspondence, memoranda, book drafts and notes, articles, speeches, reports, minutes, financial papers, scrapbooks, and other papers relating chiefly to the early history and administration of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881, as well as to the National Negro Business League which he organized in 1900, the General Education Board, New York, N.Y., Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., other African-American schools, education in general, and Washington's personal and family life.
Online Content	Items from the Booker T. Washington Papers, "An Address by Booker T. Washington at the opening of the Atlanta Exposition, September 18, 1895" and correspondence and printed matter of the National Negro Business League are available on the Library of Congress website at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998017.001.