Compliments of
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Principal Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama
TUSKEGEE AND ITS PEOPLE
TUSKEGEE 
ITS PEOPLE: THEIR IDEALS
AND ACHIEVEMENTS 
EDITED BY
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK
1906
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
PREFACE
In a general way the reading public is fairly[v]well acquainted with the work of the TuskegeeNormal and Industrial Institute, but there is continueddemand for definite information as to justwhat the graduates of that institution are doingwith their education.
That inquiry is partly answered by this book.The scope of the Tuskegee Institute work is outlinedby the chapters contained in Part I, whilethose of Part II evidence the fact that the graduatesof the school are grappling at first-hand withthe conditions that environ the masses of the Negropeople.
At the school, in addition to the regular NormalSchool course of academic work, thirty-sixindustries are taught the young men and women.These are: Agriculture; Basketry; Blacksmithing;Bee-keeping; Brickmasonry; Plastering; Brick-making;Carpentry; Carriage Trimming; Cooking;Dairying; Architectural, Freehand, and Me[vi]chanicalDrawing; Dressmaking; Electrical andSteam Engineering; Founding; Harness-making;Housekeeping; Horticulture; Canning; PlainSewing; Laundering; Machinery; Mattress-making;Millinery; Nurse Training; Painting; Sawmilling;Shoemaking; Printing; Stock-raising;Tailoring; Tinning; and Wheelwrighting.
Since the founding of the institution, July 4,1881, seven hundred and forty-six graduates havegone out from the institution, while more than sixthousand others who were not able to remain andcomplete the academic course, and thereby securea diploma, have been influenced for good by it.
The school has sought from the very beginningto make itself of practical value to the Negro peopleand to the South as well. It has taught thoseindustries that are of the South, the occupations inwhich our men and women find