Today's blog was written by Kaitlin Rogers, Archives Technician at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. "Knowledge, Leadership, Service" Harmon Foundation Collection: Tuskegee Institute, Booker T. Washington Monument (NAID 26174885) On July 4th, 1881, Booker T. Washington opened the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers in Tuskegee, Alabama’s African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Five … Continue reading Happy Founder’s Day Tuskegee University
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George Washington Carver and the Agricultural Experiment Station at the Tuskegee Institute
Today’s blog was written by Mary Kate Eckles, summer intern at the National Archives at College Park and undergraduate student at St. John’s College George Washington Carver (ca. 1861 or 1864 to January 5, 1943) was one of the United States’ most prominent agricultural scientists, inventors, and humanitarians. Born enslaved during the Civil War Years … Continue reading George Washington Carver and the Agricultural Experiment Station at the Tuskegee Institute