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.
Mount St Helens â how the eruption of a well-known volcano caused. unexpected death and destruction. Introduction. Mount St. Helens, a stratovolcano or composite volcano located in. Washington State, USA (46.2Âº latitude north, 122.2Âº longitude west,) erupted violently on the Sunday morning of May 18th 1980 at precisely. 8:32. The Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) was recorded to be 5, out of.