Booker T. Washington NM

Booker T. Washington National Monument commemorates the birthplace of America's most prominent African American educator and orator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the founder of the Tuskegee Institute. The property evokes an 1850s middle class tobacco farm, representative of Booker T. Washington's enslaved childhood at the Burroughs farm. The site includes a restored cabin believed to be where Booker T. Washington was born, as well as a visitors center with exhibits on his life and work.