Booker T. Washington

This Booker T. Washington stamp honors the first head of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Washington was born into slavery in Virginia in 1856; the stamp features the log cabin on the Burroughs Plantation where he was born. He was a dominant figure in the African-American community. A skilled orator, Washington helped to gain support for civil rights for disenfranchised African-Americans in the post-Reconstruction period. He focused on education, literacy, and entrepreneurship.