Booker T. Washington Coloring Page

Introduce young children to one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement in the United States with this Booker T. Washington coloring page. Booker T. Washington was a pioneering educator, writer, activist, and adviser who helped to found the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Washington, born into slavery and poverty, was one of the most important figures of the early civil rights movement in the United States. This worksheet, designed for a second grade history curriculum, lends well to a unit on U.S. history as well as Black History Month.