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Did you know... that Kanawha (pictured) was a steam-powered luxury yacht aboard which industrialist Henry H. Rogers met Booker T. Washington to secretly fund the education of African Americans?

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Did You Know...

...that Kanawha was a steam-powered luxury yacht owned by American industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers aboard which he hosted Dr. Booker T. Washington through whom he provided millions of dollars in anonymous matching funds for the education of blacks in the South?