April 7

Booker T. Washington (pictured) an African-American teacher, politician and author was honored on the 7th in 1940 when the United States Postal Service issued a postage stamp bearing his image, the first black American to be so honored. However, Washington received his greatest honor in 1969 when the song ‘Uptight’ went top ten with his band the MG’s.
In 1901, as a guest of President Theodore Roosevelt, Booker was the first black man honored as a guest in the ironically named White House.
In his autobiography Up From Slavery, published in 1901, Washington wrote "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."