Front:
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON,
FOUNDER OF TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE,
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALA.
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Booker T. Washington, Founder and first Principal of 3
Tuskegee Institute was born a slave 1856 (?), graduated
from Hampton Institute (Virginia) in 1878, called to
Alabama in 1881 to found the Tuskegee Normal & In-
dustrial Institute, a school for Negroes. The Institute,
now a world-famous college, has grown from 30 pupils S
in a borrowed church to over 12 hundred enrollment,
110 buildings and a 35 hundred acre campus. His au-
tobiography "Up From Slavery” has been translated in- ?
to more than 19 different languages. He died in 1915
and is buried on the campus of Tuskegee Institute,
where, in 1921, a bronze monument to his memory was
unveiled. The United States Government selected
Booker T. Washington as one of the five American
educators to be honored in the 35 Famous American
Series of Commemorative Postage Stamps issued in
1940. The Booker T. Washington stamp is of the
ten cent denomination.
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MADE IN U. S. A. BY E. C. KROPP CO., MILWAUKEE, WIS.- (CJB)
