Letters signed by Booker T. Washington, 1896-1914 [manuscript]
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Institute for Colored Youth (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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The Institute for Colored Youth was founded in 1837 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It became the first high school for African-Americans in the United States, although there were schools that admitted African Americans preceding it. At the time, public policy and certain statutory provisions prohibited the education of blacks in various parts of the nation and slavery was entrenched across the south. It was followed by two other black institutions— Lincoln University in Pennsylvan...
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
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Washington was an African-American educator and founder of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, later the Tuskegee Institute. From the description of Letter : Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala., to George W. Benson, 1898 May 10. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 34657012 ...
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
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Booker T. Washington was an African American educator and public figure. Born a slave on a small farm in Hale's Ford, Virginia, he worked his way through the Hampton Institute and became an instructor there. He was the first principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and under his management it became a successful center for practical education. A forceful and charismatic personality, he became a national figure through his books and lectures. Although his conservative views concerned many critics, he...
