While Booker ... and Washington was recommended as the principal. He arrived at Tuskegee to find no buildings or land, and had to recruit funds and students. Tuskegee Institute opened in 1881 ...

Booker T. Washington was ... first principal of the newly-founded Tuskegee Institute, a school for African Americans in Tuskegee, Alabama. At Tuskegee, Washington developed a vocational curriculum ...

Booker T. Washington had a busy schedule when he visited Riverside on March 22, 1914. Over the course of the day he gave four speeches. In each he talked about his childhood as a slave, the ...