Macon, Mississippi (March 9, 1865 – June 4, 1925) age 60 yrs

Margaret Murray Washington was an educator, administrator, reformer, and clubwoman who married Booker T. Washington and worked with closely him at Tuskegee and on educational projects. She was very well known in her own time. She was somewhat forgotten in later treatments of black history. This is because of her association with a more conservative approach to winning racial equality. Washington was the principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which later became Tuskegee University. She was inducted into the Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame in 1972.