AL HJR6

Designates April 5, 2026, as Booker T. Washington Day in Alabama, coinciding with his recognized birth date of April 5, 1856

Honors Washington as the first President of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), which opened July 4, 1881, with a focus on academic and vocational education for African Americans

Recognizes his founding of the National Negro Business League in 1900 and his role as advisor to Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft on race relations

Notes his 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition, which called for cooperation between Black and white Americans

Passed the House on January 22, 2026, and adopted by the Senate on February 10, 2026