Tuskegee Institute
In 1880, Lewis
Adams appointed Booker Taliaferro Washington principle of the Tuskegee Institute
in Alabama. It was a school for African-Americans. The state was funding
them only 2,000 dollars a year, so Washington took it upon himself to receive
donations. Some contributors were Carnegie and Rockefeller. Many
people however critizzed Washington because he was relying on donations.
They felt that he was using the rich and needed them to have the institute
survive. With the donations he received, he bought land and made a new
school. The school taught practical education(farming, cabinet making,
bricklayering, carpentry, and shoemaking). Washington believed that
black should prove their loyalty to the United States by not complaining and
not campaign for the right to vote. Many whites approved of this idea.
The school was built to prepare blacks for life when they graduated.
