Tuskegee University, founded on July 4, 1881, commemorates its 144th anniversary today. The institution began as the Tuskegee ...

While Booker T. Washington was not born in Alabama, ... Tuskegee Institute opened in 1881, which is now Tuskegee University. Dr. George Washington Carver was one of the staff members in 1896.

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.

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 ...

A private, historically black university, Tuskegee was founded in post-Civil War Alabama in 1881 and named a National Historic Site. Booker T. Washington, one of the leading orators of the 19th ...

Peggy Scott and T. Thomas Fortune are all the way south of the Mason Dixon line because they want to report on what Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute was accomplishing down south.

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does ...

Booker T. Washington died on November 14, 1915, of “elevated hypertension.” He had been in New York and, upon learning that he had little time left, was able to board a train to Tuskegee to ...

Tuskegee University, the HBCU founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881, has received another $20 million donation from an anonymous donor, the institution’s second in four years.