The First Harvest at Tuskegee

When Booker T. Washington arrived in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1881, he found a broken-down shanty and an abandoned church. That was his school. He had been born into slavery, had worked in salt furnaces and coal mines as a child, and had walked hundreds of miles to attend Hampton Institute with barely a penny in his pocket. But Washington never forgot where he came from.…