TUSKEGEE, Ala. (WSFA) - The great-granddaughter of Booker T. Washington, one of the founders of Tuskegee University, made her return to campus for the first time in several years for homecoming.

TUSKEGEE, Ala. — The first buildings you notice, as the farmland gives way to the university campus, are not dormitories or classrooms. The first buildings you notice here are the museums, be… ...

Booker T. Washington, in establishing Tuskegee Institute, had a three-point plan -- education, based on critical thinking, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance. Education was not just about, as the ...

Tuskegee University, founded on July 4, 1881, commemorates its 144th anniversary today. The institution began as the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers, established through a collaboration ...

To address that, Tuskegee University has received a $100,000 grant to study the life of Booker T. Washington, the longtime leader of the school and for decades one of the most prominent African ...

Booker T. Washington Tuskegee University announced that they will honor their founder Booker T. Washington with a yearlong celebration which began in mid-November 2014 and will run through Nov. 14 ...

Booker T. Washington, the first principal of Tuskegee University, wrote letters and traveled the country to raise funds for student tuition at what was then known as the Tuskegee Normal School.

But I quickly understood that it was no longer Booker T.’s university.” Washington preached fiscal conservatism, yet the university was $143.6 million in debt.

Ever since Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute in 1881, the small Southern town of Tuskegee, Alabama has been a mecca for African Americans. In 1999, Carolyn Quick Tillery , an alumna ...

This was more than all of the white public college students in Alabama combined, said professor Robert Norrell, author of Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington. The Tuskegee Institute is ...

The Tuskegee Institute is now Tuskegee University, which enrolls more than 3,000 students and offers more than 50 academic degrees. "[Washington] educated a lot of people," Norrell says.

Professor Chester Fontenot talks about the legacy of Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee Institute. Report Video Issue Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos.