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

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 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, 2015, the 100th ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.