TUSKEGEE  , a See also:

• TOWN

town and See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of See also:

• MACON
• MACON, NATHANIEL (1758-1837)

Macon county, See also:

• ALABAMA

Alabama, U.S.A., in the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, about 40 M . E. of See also:

• MONTGOMERY
• MONTGOMERY ( Tre' Faldwyn)
• MONTGOMERY, GABRIEL, SEIGNEUR DE LORGES, COMTE DE (c. 1530-1574)
• MONTGOMERY, JAMES (1771-1854)
• MONTGOMERY, ROBERT (1807-1855)

Montgomery . Pop . (1900) 2170; (1910) 2803 . It is served by the Tuskegee railway, which connects it with Chehaw, 5 M. distant, on the Western railway of Alabama . The See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city manufactures See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton See also:

• SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed . Tuskegee is chiefly known for its educational institutions—the Tuskegee Normal and See also:

• INDUSTRIAL

Industrial See also:

• INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute and the Alabama See also:

• CONFERENCE

Conference See also:

• FEMALE

Female See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College (Methodist Episcopal See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church, See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South; opened 1856) . The former was founded in 188o by an See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of the state legislature as the Tuskegee State Normal School, and was opened in See also:

• JULY

July 1881 by Booker T . See also:

• WASHINGTON
• WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)
• WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO (c. 1859– )
• WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829)
• WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799)

Washington for the purpose of giving an industrial See also:

• EDUCATION

education to negroes; in 1893 it was incorporated under its See also:

• PRESENT

present name . In 1899 the See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress granted to the school 25,000 acres of See also:

• MINERAL

mineral lands, of which 20,000 acres, valued at $200,000,were unsold in 1909 . See also:

• ANDREW (Gr. 'AvBp4as, manly)
• ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867)

Andrew See also:

• CARNEGIE
• CARNEGIE, ANDREW (1837– )

Carnegie gave $600,000 to the institute in 1903, and the institute has a Carnegie library (1902), with about 15,00o volumes in 1909 . In 1909 the endowment was about $1,389,600, and the school See also:

• PROPERTY

property was valued at about $1,117,660 .

It had in 1909 a property of 2345 acres (of which r000 were See also:

• FARM

farm lands, 1145 pasture and See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood lands, and 200 school campus), and Too buildings, many of See also:

• BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick, and nearly all designed and constructed, even to the making of the bricks, by the teachers and students . The state of Alabama appropriated $2000 for teachers' salaries in 1880, increased the See also:

• APPROPRIATION (from Lat. appropriare, to set aside)

appropriation to $3000 in 1884, and for many years gave $4500 annually; the school receives $ro,000 annually from the See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John F . See also:

• SLATER, JOHN FOX (1815-1884)
• SLATER, SAMUEL (1768-1835)

Slater Fund, and the same sum from the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General Education See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

Board . The institute comprises an See also:

• ACADEMIC

academic See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department (in which all students are enrolled) with a seven years' course, the See also:

• PHELPS, AUSTIN (182o-1890)
• PHELPS, EDWARD JOHN (1822-I900)
• PHELPS, SAMUEL (1804-1878)

Phelps See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

Hall See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

bible training school (1892), with a three years' course, and departments of See also:

• MECHANICAL

mechanical See also:

• INDUSTRIES

industries, industries for girls, and See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

agriculture . The department of agriculture has an experiment station, established by the state in 1896, in which important experiments in cotton breeding have been carried on . There are a farm, a large See also:

• TRUCK

truck See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden, an See also:

• ORCHARD (O. Eng. ort-geard, later orceard; a combination apparently of Lat. hortus, garden, and " yard " or " Barth ")

orchard, and a bakery and See also:

• CANNING, CHARLES JOHN, EARL (1812-1862)
• CANNING, GEORGE (1770-1827)

canning factory . See also:

• FORTY

Forty different industries are taught . Cooking See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools and See also:

• NIGHT

night schools are carried on by the institute in the town of Tuskegee . In 1908-1909 the enrolment was 1494 students, of whom about one-See also:

• QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter were See also:

• WOMEN

women, and there were 167 teachers, all negroes . Tuition in the institute is See also:

• FREE

free; board and living cost $8.5o a See also:

• MONTH
• MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

month; See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day students are allowed to " See also:

• WORK

work-out " $1.50-$3.00 a month of this amount, and night students may thus pay all their expenses . At Tuskegee under the auspices of the institute are held the See also:

• ANNUAL

annual See also:

• NEGRO (from Lat. eager, black)

negro conferences (begun in 1891) and monthly farmers' institutes (begun in 1897); and See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short courses in agriculture (begun in 1904) are conducted . Farmers' institutes are held throughout the South by teachers of the school .

In 1905 the institute took up the work of rural school See also:

• EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension . A See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model negro See also:

• VILLAGE

village (South See also:

• GREENWOOD, FREDERICK (1830-19o9)
• GREENWOOD, JOHN (d. 1593)

Greenwood) has been built See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of the institute grounds on See also:

• LAND

land bought by the institute in 1901 . Affiliated with the institute and having its headquarters in Tuskegee is the National Negro Business See also:

• LEAGUE

League (1900) . The success of the institute is due primarily to its founder and See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal, Booker T . Washing-ton, and to the efficient board of trustees, which has included such men as .See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert C . See also:

• OGDEN

Ogden and See also:

• SETH
• SETH (Egyptian Set, Sth~~~{{{or Sts)
• SETH (I* according to Dillmann, " setting " or " slip "; Septuagint, Philo and New Testament, fie, but r Chron. i. 1 Ells in A ; Josephus, EfjOor, Vulg. Seth)

Seth See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

Low . Tuskegee was settled about 1800 . See Booker T . Washington, Working With the Hands (New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, 1904) ; and Thrasher, Tuskegee, Its See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

Story and Its Work (See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston, 1900) .