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Tuskegee University was founded in a one room shanty near Butler Chapel AME Zion Church. This thirty adult class of graduates was lead by Booker T. Washington, the first teacher. The founding date was July 8, 1881, authorized by House Bill 165. Over the past 129 years, it has become one of the nation’s outstanding institutions of learning. It has continued to become a flourished society lead by great leaders. ([|www.Tuskegee.edu])
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Booker Taliaferro Washington, who was born on April 5, 1856, became a historical prominence about the war at the 1895 Cotton Exposition. He founded Tuskegee in 1881 and served as the first president until his death in 1915. He also took Tuskegee to national prominence in 1885 while teaching at Tuskegee University. He was 59 years old when he passed.(History And Mission)

George Washington Carver, another Tuskegee legend, was born in 1864 near Diamond Grove, Missouri on the farm of Moses Carver. It was hard times for him and his family then, but somehow he managed to get through it. He started his education at the age of twelve years old. He left his adopted parents and moved to southwest Missouri working as farm hand and went to school in a one room classroom. (History And Mission)

Dr. Washington, a highly skilled organizer and fundraiser, was counsel to American Presidents, a strong advocate of Negro buisness, and a instrumental in the development of educational institutions throughout the South. He maintained a lifelong power of the institutional arts. ([|www.Tuskegee.edu])

Works Cited

Uschan, Michael V. //Forty Years of Medical Racism: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study//

Farmington Hills, MI: Lucent Books/Thomson/Gale 2007.

Homan, Lynn M. //Black Knights: The Story of Tuskegee Airmen//

Gretna, La: Pelican Publishing 2001

Thrasher, M. //Tuskegee: Its Story and its Work// 1969