"Booker T. Washington, Founder of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Institute, Ala."

"Booker T. Washington, Founder of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Institute, Ala."

"Booker T. Washington, Founder and first Principal of Tuskegee Institute was born a slave 1856 (?), graduated from Hampton Institute (Virginia) in 1878, called to Alabama in 1881 to found the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute, a school for Negroes. The Institute, now a world-famous col...

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Alabama Photographs and Pictures
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"Booker T. Washington, Founder of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Institute, Ala."
fulltopic Alabama Photographs and Pictures
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915; African Americans; College administrators; Education; Teachers; Universities & colleges
description "Booker T. Washington, Founder and first Principal of Tuskegee Institute was born a slave 1856 (?), graduated from Hampton Institute (Virginia) in 1878, called to Alabama in 1881 to found the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute, a school for Negroes. The Institute, now a world-famous college, has grown from 30 pupils in a borrowed church to over 12 hundred enrollment, 110 buildings and a 35 hundred acre campus. His autobiography "Up From Slavery" has been translated into more than 19 different languages. He died in 1915 and is buried on the campus of Tuskegee Institute, where, in 1921, a bronze monument to his memory was unveiled. The United States Government selected Booker T. Washington as one of the five American educators to be honored in the 35 Famous American Series of Commemorative Postage Stamps issued in 1940. The Booker T. Washington stamp is of the ten cent denomination."
spelling Q0000017112Q17112"Booker T. Washington, Founder of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.""Booker T. Washington, Founder and first Principal of Tuskegee Institute was born a slave 1856 (?), graduated from Hampton Institute (Virginia) in 1878, called to Alabama in 1881 to found the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute, a school for Negroes. The Institute, now a world-famous college, has grown from 30 pupils in a borrowed church to over 12 hundred enrollment, 110 buildings and a 35 hundred acre campus. His autobiography "Up From Slavery" has been translated into more than 19 different languages. He died in 1915 and is buried on the campus of Tuskegee Institute, where, in 1921, a bronze monument to his memory was unveiled. The United States Government selected Booker T. Washington as one of the five American educators to be honored in the 35 Famous American Series of Commemorative Postage Stamps issued in 1940. The Booker T. Washington stamp is of the ten cent denomination."1890-1899; 1900-1909Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915; African Americans; College administrators; Education; Teachers; Universities & collegesStill imagePostcardsAlabama. Department of Archives and HistoryAlabama Department of Archives and History postcard collectionLPP45, Box 3, #1316v8775Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130EnglishThis material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though ADAH has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.600 PPI TIFFhttp://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photo/id/8845
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