Tuskegee High School was founded in the early 1900s. The school is still open today, but has been transformed into a college for African-American students. Students are taught industrial skills to prepare them for life outside of Tuskegee's walls. In his autobiography "I am glad that we endured all those discomforts and inconveniences I am glad that our students had to dig out the place for the kit kitchen and dining room," former headteacher says.
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915)[1] was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary black elite.[2] Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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