FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) – It’s been 160 years since the emancipation of Booker T. Washington; a Franklin County native born into slavery, who became a monumental figure in African American education and civil rights.
That moment of freedom will be commemorated at the Booker T. Washington National Monument with special events from June 19-22.
Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856 on James and Elizabeth Burroughs’ tobacco planation in Hale’s Ford, Virginia, where he lived in a small kitchen cabin with his mother, brother and sister…