Word: bookers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion, Tuskegee will auction off the first issue of the George Washington Carver postage stamp. It was only the second time a Negro's face had appeared on a U.S. stamp, and the first one was also a Tuskegee man: ex-Slave Booker T. Washington, who opened Tuskegee 67 years...
Sweetened Water & Peas. Carver and Washington were the brain and heart of Tuskegee. What is now a $10 million campus began with a shanty schoolhouse which leaked so badly that on rainy days Booker T. Washington had to keep his umbrella up while teaching. For weeks, he and his students lived on little more than sweetened water and black peas. The Negroes of the town could only help him a little. An old woman hobbled up to him one day and gave him all she had-six eggs. "Mr. Washington," she said, "I knows what you is tryin...
...First: slaveborn Booker T. Washington...
...luck; traitors and criminals-some 210 names were given the heave ho (samples: William "Boss" Tweed, Carrie Nation, Daniel Boone, Pocahontas). Enough also-rans (1½ pages in the D.A.B.) were then added to bring the list to an even thousand. The finalists include 973 men (examples: George and Booker T. Washington, Eugene V. Debs, Aaron Burr, Andrew Carnegie, Brigham Young) and 27 women (Lillian Russell, Emily Dickinson, Mary Baker Eddy). Some of the findings...
...habitually use. Though the House Appropriations Committee is slashing almost every Government agency in sight, Evans will ask for $11,346,000-nearly twice last year's alltime high. There is a crisis in his library's crates: millions of new and wartime acquisitions (among them the Booker T. Washington and George W. Norris papers) are still unsorted and uncatalogued. The library needs double its present staff (1,910) to handle this backlog. Warns Evans: "Merely by standing still, [the library may] subside into a sterility from which it could never quite recover...