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
George Washington Carver
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George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was one of the most prominent Black scie
Tuskegee University
…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 Health Service, in recruiting…
Carver c. 1910
The farmhouse of Moses Carver (built in 1881), near the place where George Carver lived as a youth
Carver at work in his laboratory
George Washington Carver, front row, center, poses with fellow faculty of Tuskegee Institute in this c. 1902 photograph taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston.