Tuskegee University
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Tuskegee University is a private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States. It was founded as a normal school for black teachers on July 4, 1881, by the Alabama Leg
Original campus buildings on the Miller plantation, 1882
Booker T. Washington
The Oaks, Booker T. Washington's home on the Tuskegee campus, c. 1906
History class at Tuskegee, 1902
Booker T. Washington
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Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elit
Tuskegee University
…National Park Service in 1974. The university has been home to a number of important African American figures, including founder and first president Booker T. Washington, scientist George Washington Carver, and World War II's Tuskegee Airmen. In 1932 Tuskegee was involved, in collaboration with the United States Public…
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, April 5, 1956, the US Post office issued a commemorative stamp depicting the birthplace of Booker T. Washington in Franklin County, Virginia.
The Oaks – Booker T. Washington's house at Tuskegee University