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The Exhibit of American Negroes |
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Tuskegee Institute |
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Tuskegee Normal School opened on July 4, 1881. Its founder, Booker T. Washington, a graduate of Hampton Institute, had been recommended to head the school by General Samual Chapman Armstrong. Washington rapidly rose to prominence among white social and political leaders. In his 1895 speech at the Atlanta Exposition, Washington took an accomodationist stance, one highly popular with mainstream white leadership. In doing so, he alienated many other Black leaders, but assured the continued support of Tuskegee by white philanthropists. W. E. B. Du Bois, at first an admirer of Washington, wrote perhaps the most telling early critique of Washington and ``the Tuskegee Plan" in his 1903 work The Souls of Black Folks. Almost all of the photographs sent from Tuskegee to the Paris Exhition were photomontages. They are very large, measuring approximately 36 by 20 inches. |
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Tuskegee Institute and its Industries |
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Tuskegee Institute And Its Industries |
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Detail from one of the Tuskegee Photo Montages |
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Detail from one of the Tuskegee Photo Montages |
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Detail from one of the Tuskegee Photo Montages |
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Detail from one of the Tuskegee Photo Montages |
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