U. S. Post Office Established Feb. 12, 1948
Booker Washington Birthplace, Virginia
Opening Celebration ends Feb. 12, 1949
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Miss Lucy M. Leitz
Wall Lake,
Iowa
-Reproduced from "The Story of My Life and Work"
Reading of Emancipation Proclamation to slaves on
Burroughs Plantation, Franklin County, Va., 1863 (The
youth with slouch hat and stick in hand is Booker).
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON BIRTHPLACE
MEMORIAL
Established to Commemorate his Life and to Perpetuate
his Ideals and Teachings
S. J. PHILLIPS, PRESIDENT
BODKER WASHINGTON BIRTHPLACE, Va.
BOOKER
LACE
