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Booker T. Washington Memorial
by Ed Hamilton
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, Louisville, KY 40203
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Bronze monument by Louisville sculptor Ed Hamilton honoring Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee Institute. Hamilton's nationally recognized work also includes the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington D.C.
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Booker T. Washington
American educator, author, orator and adviser
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.
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Booker T. Washington Memorial
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, Louisville, KY 40203
Louisville
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- Year Built
- 1989
- Architect
- Ed Hamilton
- Style
- Figurative Bronze
- Period
- Modern
- Era
- 1989
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