History of the United States II / Unit 6 USH2 0774 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Booker T. Washington
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The idea
Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama in eighteen eighty-one and led it until nineteen fifteen.
In practice
Industrial education and vocational training as the path to Black advancement.
Where people slip
Carnegie, Rockefeller and Julius Rosenwald supported his work. The Yawp calls Tuskegee a model of Black vocational education championed across the South.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
- Nothing. This is a starting point.
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