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A portion of a letter handwritten on yellowed paper probably by a secretary, asking for a contribution "toward our school." The letter is signed in a different ink and handwriting above the secretary's handwritten title, "Principal." T is an additional small note written over the letter near the left side. The other side is blank. 5 1/2 inches wide by 3 1/4 inches high. If they didn't own a typewriter, this must have been in the earliest days of Tuskegee Institute! Booker Taliaferro was born a mixed race slave April 5, 1856. His mother later married another slave, Washington Ferguson, and Booker took his stepfather's first name for his surname. In 1880, Lewis Adams, a black political leader in Georgia agreed to help two white politicians, William Foster and Arthur Brooks, to win a local election in return for building a Negro school They got elected, and they saw to it that the Tuskegee Institute was built. The Tuskegee Negro Normal Institute opened July 4, 1881, in a shanty owned by a local church, with Booker T. Washington as its first principal and a budget of only $2000 a year, earmarked for salaries only. It seems likely this letter is from those earliest days of the school, when t was no money for supplies. Booker T. Washington went on to become a figure of national importance, helping to establish the National Negro Business League in 1900. He died at Tuskegee November 14, 1915. Provenance: acquired as-is at auction among a lot containing other black Americana ephemera from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (postcards, trade cards, etc.) This piece was contained in a plastic bag with a hand written sticker on the outside reading, "Booker T. Washington." and containing also a blank 3 by 5 card, typical dealers' inventory packaging.
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