Booker Taliaferro Washington. Educator Booker T. Washington was one of the foremost African-American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founding the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now known as Tuskegee University.
You are visitor #1 million + since June 10, 1998. On May 18th, 1980 the eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington state disrupted the lives of thousands and changed more than 200 square miles of rich forest into a grey, lifeless landscape. Now, more than twenty-six years later, the land around the mountain is slowly healing.
On May 18, 1980 a major volcanic eruption occurred at Mount St. Helens, a volcano located in the state of Washington, United States.undreds of square miles were reduced to wasteland, causing over a billion U.S. dollars in damage ($2.88 billion in 2014 dollars), thousands of game animals were killed, and Mount St. Helens was left with a crater on its north side.