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Title: Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements

Author: Various

Editor: Booker T. Washington

Release Date: February 15, 2009 [EBook #28087]

Language: English

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_Compliments of_

_BOOKER T. WASHINGTON_

_Principal Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama_

TUSKEGEE AND ITS PEOPLE

[Illustration: BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.]

TUSKEGEE & ITS PEOPLE: THEIR IDEALS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

EDITED BY

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK
1906

COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

_Published June, 1905_

PREFACE

In a general way the reading public is fairly well acquainted with the
work of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, but there is
continued demand for definite information as to just what the graduates
of that institution are doing with their education.

That inquiry is partly answered by this book. The scope of the Tuskegee
Institute work is outlined by the chapters contained in Part I, while
those of Part II evidence the fact that the graduates of the school are
grappling at first-hand with the conditions that environ the masses of
the Negro people.

At the school, in addition to the regular Normal School course of
academic work, thirty-six industries are taught the young men and women.
These are: Agriculture; Basketry; Blacksmithing; Bee-keeping;
Brickmasonry; Plastering; Brick-making; Carpentry; Carriage Trimming;
Cooking; Dairying; Architectural, Freehand, and Mechanical Drawing;
Dressmaking; Electrical and Steam Engineering; Founding; Harness-making;
Housekeeping; Horticulture; Canning; Plain Sewing; Laundering;
Machinery; Mattress-making; Millinery; Nurse Training; Painting;
Sawmilling; Shoema