Research Catalog

Title

Tuskegee & its people : their ideals and achievements / edited by Booker T. Washington.

Publication

• New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1906.
• ©1905

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
• Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay), 1873-1957.
• D. Appleton and Company, publisher.

Description

viii, [6], 354 pages, [23] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits; 21 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

Tuskegee and its people

Subjects

• Tuskegee Institute History
• African American universities and colleges > Alabama > Tuskegee
• Tuskegee Institute
• Black author
• Tuskegee Institute Alumni and alumnae > Biography
• African Americans > Education (Higher)

Note

• "Copyright, 1905, by D. Appleton and Company. Published June, 1905."--verso of title page.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906

Source (note)

• Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

General introduction / by Booker T. Washington -- pt. 1. The school and its purposes: Present achievements and governing ideals / by Emmett J. Scott, Mr. Washington's executive secretary -- Resources and material equipment / by Warren Logan, treasurer of the school -- The academic aims / by Roscoe C. Bruce, director of the academic department -- What girls are taught, and how / by Mrs. Booker T. Washington, directory of industries for girls -- Hampton Institute's relation to Tuskegee / by Robert R. Moton -- pt. 2. Autobiographies by graduates of the school: A college president's story / by Isaac Fisher, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas -- A school principal's story / by William H. Holtzclaw, of Utica, Mississippi -- A lawyer's story / by George W. Lovejoy, of Mobile, Alabama -- A school treasurer's story / by Martin A. Menafee, of Denmark, South Carolina -- The story of a farmer / by Frank Reid, of Dawkins, Alabama -- Cotton-growing in Africa / by John W. Robinson, of Lome, Togo, West Africa -- The story of a teacher of cooking / by Mary L. Dotson, of Tuskegee Institue [sic], Alabama -- A woman's work / by Cornelia Bowen, of Waugh (Mt. Meigs), Alabama -- Uplifting of the submerged masses / by W.J. Edwards, of Snow Hill, Alabama -- A dairyman's story / by Lewis A. Smith, of Rockford, Illinois -- The story of a wheelwright / by Edward Lomax, of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama -- The story of a blacksmith / by Jubie B. Bragg, of Tallahassee, Florida -- A druggist's story / by David L. Johnston, of Birmingham, Alabama -- The story of a supervisor of mechanical industries / by James M. Canty, of Institute P.O., West Virginia -- A Negro community builder / by Russell C. Calhoun, of Eatonville, Florida -- The evolution of a shoemaker / by Charles L. Marshall, of Cambria, Virginia.

Call Number

SSR (Washington, B. T. Tuskegee & its people)

LCCN

05017294

OCLC

223306

Title

Tuskegee & its people : their ideals and achievements / edited by Booker T. Washington.

Publisher

New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1906.

Copyright Date

©1905

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, 10969

Provenance

Copy in Sc 378.76 (Tuskegee)-W (accession no. B524137) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Local Note

Copy in SSR Bequest of Miss Matilda W. Bruce.

Connect to:

Full text available via HathiTrust (Harvard University copy)

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915, editor.

Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay), 1873-1957.

D. Appleton and Company, publisher.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

SSR (Washington, B. T. Tuskegee & its people)

Sc 378.76 (Tuskegee)-W (Washington, B. T. Tuskegee & its people. 1906)