Booker T. Washington School

Booker T. Washington School was a four-room schoolhouse for black students. It was built on the property where its namesake was born, and it is now included as part of Booker T. Washington National Monument. The school opened in September 1954, four months after the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board. It continued to operate as a segregated school until 1966. Charles Scruggs, J. T. Payne, Lillie Wright, Naomi Winston, and Marie Arrington were teachers at the school. To learn more, see Scot French, Booker T. Washington Elementary School and Segregated Education in Virginia (NPS, 2007).

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