WEEK ENDING SAT. AUGUST 10, 1957
B. T. Washington 9 s Birthplace Made A Memorial
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Annual NAACP convention, held in Detroit. (Nowsprese Photo).
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1). S. Honors Famous Educator,
Leader With Virginia Monument
! WASHINGTON 'ANP> The
I United Sinter tin', honored Booker
| T Washington, the famous Negro
educator ond leaden posthumously.
! j oy making a public memorial of
; ; his birthpl h.i u Rocky Mount. Va.
I Fred A Scats-n. Secretary of The
j In’.»■:■ i• > o. umouneed this week the
i j establishment of the monument
| ! which is net a piece of statuary
f | but will coiep; igc a park built out
ji of the faro; which own molds the
[j log cabin in which the famed Vir
j ! ginian was born,
PAR ! o: NATION VI, PVKK jjVS
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, j r .l tie mommeril, will he part of
I i the national park system. "It corn*
■ j incarcralc;-: a g*v man." said Sc-
I j cretary Seaton. a man whose i*
| I deals ha ■■ left an indelible Jtsn
| j print and whose life established
; j f u r hi.* r.u ■ .a pa tin nos advance*
j i ment founded .->n the basic virtues
1 jof hon: sty, irdubry. thrif 1 and in*
I torracial harmony'’
rhesier l. Brooks, former
historian at the I’hrodorr
• Roosevelt National Memorial
Park in North Dakota will
have charge id thp Booker
Washington Memorial
Dr Vi a .hington’s birthplace
has had an interesting recent
history. The white owners of
the farm on which the cabin
stood wanted to dispose of it.
They offered it to Tuskegce In
stitute. It was the period dur
•ng the depression and the
schools officials did not pur
chase it so it was put up for
auction.
I An enterp: ising salesman who
I .vns a graduate of Tuskegec In
| stifute. convinced the owners of a
! popular soft drink manufactured
i in Georgia, that the project had
Value. He is said to have hid the
, cabin and the small bit of ground
j surrounding it in. using a blank
| check which hi« employers had fur-
I nished him,
NOW A NATIONAL SWUM
i ! Th- re followed a scries of ex
j pioitntivi promotions including the
■ j issuing of Booker T Washington
• | half dollars and the establishment
of a school near the site. Last Ap
; ril. the foundation acting in con
j cert with the State of Virginia
[ deeded the property to the feder
| a! government and it has now be
; come a national shrine.
Congress has authorized the es
tablishment of a museum at the
THE CAROLINIAN
! monument, which will hold histor
i ic records of national anc! patriot*
j ;c interest.
i At the age of lfi. Booker T..
: made his first bid for an eduea- ,
1 lion at Hampton Normal and In
t dustrial Institute. He walked and
begged rides to travel tne 500 miles
! to Hampton, where he worked as
1 a janitor to pay his tuition.
STARTS WITH Ft STUDENTS
’ i Afler graduation, he taught
! school at Maiden. Va. but in 1G79.
i he returned to Hampton as an in
' [ structoi. When Instructor Wash- j
| ington was 25, he was invited to j
| organize a Negro school ai Tuskc- t
Edward’s Shoe Store
! 10 EAST MARTIN ST.
The Family Shoe Store
For 49 Years
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; gee. Ala At that time the school .<
\ was housed in a small, frame !
church. The lone teacher, Booker j
T had a class of 13 students, and j
his first appropriation for the j
'New Tuskegee” was the modest i
sum of $2,000.
Under his leadership and
his philosophy of training tl: •* j
hands as well as the mind. j
the modest school, 20 years la
ter. had grown to an impress
ive 40 buildings, and 36 of j
these strurturea were built by
student labor.
In 1937. the school w renamed
Tuskegee Institute. T» now has
more than 2,000 students and a fa
culty of 250 teachers and depart- <
merit heads. Dr. Robert Russa Mo
ton succeeded Dr. Washington as
president, and he in turn by Dr.
Frcdcrß’k Douglas Patterson, now
a director of the Phclps-Stokes
Fund in Manhattan. Present head
of the great vocational centei is
Dr. Luther H Foster, fourth pee
sident. i,r bo hat won 'vide com- traditions upon which the jcrsat
mendation for carrying on the institution was founded*
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