In 1881, Booker T. Washington arrived in Alabama and started building Tuskegee Institute both in reputation and literally brick by brick. He recruited the best and the brightest to come and teach here including George Washington Carver who arrived in 1896. Carver’s innovations in agriculture, especially with peanuts, expanded Tuskegee’s standing throughout the country. The story continues….
Civil Rights at Booker T. Washington National Historic Site, Hardy, Virginia. Booker T. Washington aimed to enable his students to teach other African Americans what they had learned; many of his students became teachers themselves.
A 1.5 mile trail through the forest at Booker T. Washington National Monument. This forest is where Booker T. Washington spent time as an enslaved child away from the owner's house on the Burroughs plantation. In these woods, Booker may have gathered food for his mother, who was the cook for the plantation. He may have fished to help the family supplement the diet they were provided by the owners of the plantation.
