CABINETMAKING AT TUSKEGEE 23 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AS A HAMPTON GRADUATE (1875) 24 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON’S CLASS (1875) AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE 31 TUSKEGEE’S FIRST GROUP OF BUILDINGS 51 A SUNDAY AFTERNOON BAND CONCERT ON THE CAMPUS 58 AUTOMOBILE AND BUGGY TRIMMING AT TUSKEGEE 61 CLASS IN PHYSICAL TRAINING AT TUSKEGEE 65 WHITE HALL; CHAPEL; TATUM HALL, TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE 69 JOHN A. ANDREW MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE 72 CLASS IN PHOTOGRAPHY, TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE 74 CHEMISTRY CLASS, TUSKEGEE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT 89 TRUCK GARDENING, TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE 92 DOMESTIC SCIENCE CLASS AT TUSKEGEE 95 THE STUDENTS’ BAND OF A RURAL SCHOOL 99 TAILORING DIVISION, TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE 101 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, FIRST PRINCIPAL OF TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE 119 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND HIS FAMILY 132 ROBERT RUSSA MOTON, SUCCESSOR TO BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AT TUSKEGEE 139 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND HIS GRANDCHILDREN 141 A BOYS’ LIFE OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON CHAPTER I EARLY CHILDHOOD No state in the Union has a more interesting history than Virginia. It is the oldest of the states. It was at Jamestown in 1607 that the first permanent English settlement was made in America. Before the Revolution, it shared with Massachusetts the honor of being the leading colony. During the time of the Revolution, it furnished some of America’s greatest leaders—Washington, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson. After the Revolution, it became known as the “Mother of Presidents.” Most of the battles of the Civil War were fought on its soil, and its capital was the capital of the Confederacy. Lee and Jackson, the two greatest leaders of the Confederacy, were Virginians.