4.TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE

Washington and several of his financial supporters for Tuskegee Institute

After leaving the Hampton Institute, then a "newly found school for blacks"("Washington..."), as an "instruct[or]"("Washington...") in 1881, Washington was appointed "organizer and principal"("Washington...") of the "Tuskegee Negro Normal Institute"(The National), now the Tuskegee Institute, in Alabama. With his great humanitarian abilities Washington "advertise[d]"(AOL.) the school all over the country and was able to make the institution into a "major center for industrial and agricultural training"("Washington...").

Washington was able to solicit money from the "treasurer of the Hampton Agricultural Institute"(The National) to procure his "own school"(The National) in a deserted plantation on the edge of Tuskegee, Alabama which taught normal academic classes but also "emphasized"(The National) everyday utilitarian studies such as farming, printing, carpentry and brickmaking. These same studies were the foundation of the institute because the students who learned these trades also helped to "design and construct"(AOL.) the school.

Tuskegee Institute was the "best-supported black educational institution in the country"(Booker) because of Washington's ability to generate "Northern donations"(Booker). Two of the many "supporter[s]"(Reeser) to the Tuskegee Institue included Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. By the time of Washington's death in 1915, the institute had "an endowment of $1,945,000"(Reeser).

2.OVERVIEW

3.A LITTLE HISTORY

5.NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS L...

6.NAACP

7.SUMMARY

8.WORKS CITED AND REVIEW

9. ANALYSIS

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