Booker T. Washington High School (Columbia, South Carolina)

United States historic place


Booker T. Washington High School Auditorium
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location	1400 Wheat St., Columbia, SC
Coordinates	33°59′35″N 81°01′31″W / 33.99306°N 81.02528°W / 33.99306; -81.02528
Architectural style	International Style
NRHP reference No.	100003059
Added to NRHP	October 25, 2018

Booker T. Washington High School served African American students in Columbia, South Carolina. The Booker T. Washington High School Foundation was established to preserve and celebrate the school's heritage and legacy.

Educational historian Anthony L. Edwards has written about the school and its history and conducted interviews as part of his research.

The school's auditorium is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The University of South Carolina's Museum of Education hosts a web exhibition on the high school and its participation in a 1940 Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools for Negroes’ Secondary School Study.

Alumni

Ethel Martin Bolden

References

"Photo Asset | Booker T. Washington High School | History Of SC Slide Collection | Knowitall.org". www.knowitall.org.
"SC Historic Properties Record : National Register Listing : Booker T. Washington High School Auditorium [S10817740167]". schpr.sc.gov.
"Booker T. Washington High School (Columbia, S.C.) [WorldCat Identities]".
"Gone but not Forgotten: Booker T. Washington High School, 1916-1974". May 19, 2015.
"Booker T. Washington High School Foundation". bookertwashingtonfoundationsc.org.
Edwards, Anthony L. (March 1998). Booker T. Washington High School (1916-1974): Voices of Remembrance (PDF).
"Popular UofSC civil rights exhibit will have a permanent home". University of South Carolina.
"USC: Museum of Education".

v t e Booker T. Washington
Life	Tuskegee Institute George Washington Carver 1895 Atlanta Exposition Speech Atlanta Compromise National Negro Business League 1901 White House dinner Tuskegee Institute Silver Anniversary Lecture
Books	The Future of the American Negro (1899) Up from Slavery (1901) Character Building (1902) The Negro Problem (editor, 1903) Working with the Hands (1904) Tuskegee & Its People (1905) The Negro in the South (1907)
Honors	Booker T. Washington National Monument Booker T. Washington State Park (Tennessee) Booker T. Washington State Park (West Virginia) Booker Mountain SS Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington Memorial half dollar Carver-Washington half dollar High Schools
Portrayals	A Guest of Honor (1903 opera) Booker (1984 film) Theodore Roosevelt (2022 miniseries)
Related	Fannie Smith Washington (first wife) Olivia A. Davidson (second wife) Margaret Murray Washington (third wife) Giles v. Harris African American founding fathers of the United States

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