The Tuskegee Institute

General Armstrong referred me to take charge of a school for colored people in Tuskegee, Alabama. The students who came first seemed to be fond fond of memorizing long and complicated rules and grammar and mathematics. But had little thought or knowledge of applying these rules to their everyday life He goes on the end of the first six weeks as co-teacher Miss Olivia a Davidson was born in Ohio and received her preparatory Education in the public schools of that state when little more than a girl. She heard of the need of teachers in the south that she went to the state of Mississippi and began teaching there later Her experience showed her that people needed something more than book learning.