Research Catalog

Title

The Movable School goes to the Negro farmer / by Thomas Monroe Campbell, Field Agent, Extension Service, United States Department of Agriculture.

Author

Campbell, Thomas M. (Thomas Monroe), 1883-1956.

Publication

[Tuskegee, Ala.] : Tuskegee Institute Press, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, [©1936]

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Details

Description

xiv, 170 pages frontispiece, plates, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

A semi-autobiographical work by Campbell, who was chosen by Booker T. Washington to serve as the first African American Agricultural Extension Agent in the U.S. and to develop an agricultural extension program for Afro-Americans in the rural South.

Subject

• Campbell, Thomas M. 1883-1956
• Campbell, Thomas M. 1883-1956
• Tuskegee Institute
• United States. Extension Service
• African American agricultural extension workers > Alabama > Biography
• African American agricultural extension workers > Training of > Alabama
• Agricultural education > Alabama
• Agricultural extension work > Alabama
• African Americans > Education > Alabama
• Agricultural extension work
• African American agricultural extension workers
• African Americans > Education
• Agricultural education
• Alabama

Genre/Form

• Autobiography
• Biographies.
• Autobiographies.
• Dust jackets – 20th century.
• Autobiographies – 20th century.

Note

• Issued in dust-jacket
• Includes frontispiece portrait of Thomas Monroe Campbell
• "Printed and bound in the United States of America by the Tuskegee Institute Press of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute at Tuskegee, Alabama. The typesetting, presswork, and binding of this book were done by students in Printing and Bookbinding, under the supervision of Harry O. Abbott, head of the Division of Printing."--Verso, title page

Contents

Pt. I. Semi-autobiography.--pt. II. The school on wheels.

LCCN

36007891

OCLC

• ocm01266601
• 1266601
• SCSB-772741

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library