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The History
Buff, 17509 Bearpath Trail, Eden Prairie, MN 55347
 Booker T. Washington (1856-1915). Educator and Author; Head of Tuskegee
Institute. Very Choice Signed Card, "Booker T.
Washington Tuskegee Alabama. May 26, 1902." Measuring
approximately 2.25 in. by 3.75", remnants on verso from
prior mounting with Washington's name and profession written
in another hand. Under Washington's leadership (1881-1915), Tuskegee
Institute became an important force in black education. Tuskegee
pioneered in agricultural extension, sending out demonstration
wagons that brought better methods to farmers and sharecroppers.
Graduates founded numerous "little Tuskegees." African
Americans mired in the poverty and degradation of cotton sharecropping
improved their farming techniques, income, and living conditions.
Washington urged them to become capitalists, founding the National
Negro Business League in 1900. Black agricultural scientist George
Washington Carver worked at Tuskegee from 1896 to 1943, devising
new products for peanuts and sweet potatoes. By 1915 Tuskegee
had 1,500 students and a larger endowment than any other black
institution. In very fine condition. $795. (#10670)
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