. What was Booker T. Washington's objective in setting up and Turkegee
Institute? Did he realise his goals?
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Tuskegee Institute was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881 under a charter from the Alabama legislature for the purpose of training teachers in Alabama. Tuskegee's program provided students with both academic and vocational training. The students, under Washington's direction, built their own buildings, produced their own food, and provided for most of their own basic necessities. The Tuskegee faculty utilized each of these activities to teach the students basic skills that they could share with African American communities throughout the South.
Frances Benjamin Johnston was commissioned to photograph Tuskegee in 1902. This photograph shows a history class learning about Native Americans and Captain John Smith in Virginia.

Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was born into slavery in Franklin County, Virginia, on April 5, 1856. In spite of the fact that it was illegal to teach enslaved blacks to read and write, Washington was able to obtain a primary education, and subsequently entered Hampton Institute in the fall of 1872. He proved to be an exemplary student, and over the years, an equally respectable teacher and speaker. The principal of Hampton Institute was so fond of Washington that he recommended him to a group of Alabama legislators as a viable candidate for director of an African American school that they wanted to establish in their state. In 1881, Washington became president of that Alabama school, known as Tuskegee Institute, which he and fellow colleagues built from a little shanty and church to a major educational institution for blacks.
Primarily a training ground for teachers, Tuskegee's program provided students with both academic and vocational training. As a result of Washington's work as an educator and public speaker, he became the most prominent African American leader in the United States between 1895-1915. In one of his most famous speeches called the"Atlanta Compromise", which was given in Atlanta at the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition, Washington spoke about the black struggle and quest for equality, stating "in all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." Washington's views were diametrically opposed to that of the more radical beliefs held by Frederick Douglass and NorthernerW.E.B. Du Bois. These two men, and other critics of Washington's were disappointed that he had de-emphasized racism, racial violence against blacks, and discrimination, and was later rebuked for being an accommodationist. In this same speech, Washington declared that African Americans must take responsibility for their own advancement, and urged vocational training over academic studies believing that the masses would earn a living by using their hands. He also favored both literacy tests and property qualifications for voting privileges thinking that this would encourage African American to obtain an education and wealth. Washington became the most influential African American leader of his day.
Frances Benjamin Johnston was commissioned to photograph Tuskegee in 1902. This photograph shows a history class learning about Native Americans and Captain John Smith in Virginia.

Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was born into slavery in Franklin County, Virginia, on April 5, 1856. In spite of the fact that it was illegal to teach enslaved blacks to read and write, Washington was able to obtain a primary education, and subsequently entered Hampton Institute in the fall of 1872. He proved to be an exemplary student, and over the years, an equally respectable teacher and speaker. The principal of Hampton Institute was so fond of Washington that he recommended him to a group of Alabama legislators as a viable candidate for director of an African American school that they wanted to establish in their state. In 1881, Washington became president of that Alabama school, known as Tuskegee Institute, which he and fellow colleagues built from a little shanty and church to a major educational institution for blacks.
Primarily a training ground for teachers, Tuskegee's program provided students with both academic and vocational training. As a result of Washington's work as an educator and public speaker, he became the most prominent African American leader in the United States between 1895-1915. In one of his most famous speeches called the"Atlanta Compromise", which was given in Atlanta at the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition, Washington spoke about the black struggle and quest for equality, stating "in all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." Washington's views were diametrically opposed to that of the more radical beliefs held by Frederick Douglass and NorthernerW.E.B. Du Bois. These two men, and other critics of Washington's were disappointed that he had de-emphasized racism, racial violence against blacks, and discrimination, and was later rebuked for being an accommodationist. In this same speech, Washington declared that African Americans must take responsibility for their own advancement, and urged vocational training over academic studies believing that the masses would earn a living by using their hands. He also favored both literacy tests and property qualifications for voting privileges thinking that this would encourage African American to obtain an education and wealth. Washington became the most influential African American leader of his day.
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