SESSION 2: The Church as a Factor | Champions of Human Liberty | Industrial Education | Higher Education |
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Industrial Education |
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Students at Tuskegee Institute learned, in Booker T. Washington's words, "to do a common thing in an uncommon manner." The institute taught basic farming, carpentry, brickmaking and bricklaying, print shop, home economics, and other practical subjects, as well as basic secondary school courses. Manual training courses developed at Tuskegee served as models, not just in the United States, but in nations all over the developing world. Presidents and dignitaries visited Tuskegee. The major philanthropic figures of the day -- such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie -- contributed heavily to its operation, confirming, in the words of a 1916 report of the U.S. Bureau of Education, "the partiality of donors in the North for schools of this order." African-American critics charged that Tuskegee did little more than train its students to comply with the white social order of the South and that Tuskegee graduates, denied access to industrial positions, became domestic workers and manual laborers. However, Tuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington insisted that progress was being made. |
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Pamphlet Excerpt from "Nineteenth Annual Report of the Principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute" by Booker T. Washington Real Audio Format | .WAV format | Entire Pamphlet Audio Transcription:
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SESSIONS: Segregation and Violence | Solving the Race Problem | Contributions to the Nation |