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Ellis Walker Woods was the first principal of Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.. He was born in 1885, the son of a freed slave, and attended Rust College at Holly Springs, Miss., and then Kansas State Teachers College in Pittsburg, Kansas..

He served as principal from 1913 until his death in 1948. Before his death, he worked tirelessly to help secure a bond election that raised $1.4 million to build the current Washington High School at 1631 E. Woodrow Place..

Efforts are ongoing to build a memorial to honor his legacy and to commemorate the original site of the high school.




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1913

Booker T. Washington High School in 1913
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1920

Booker T. Washington High School in 1920's
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Current

Booker T. Washington High School
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