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Proudest Negro job in the world is the presidency of the institute which the late great Booker Taliaferro Washington founded at Tuskegee, Ala. in 1881. Tuskegee's two leaders, Dr. Washington and Dr. Robert Russa Moton, who succeeded him two decades ago, have done much to set the course of Negro education and culture in the U. S. They have had the friendly ear of tycoons, statesmen, a dozen Presidents. Again & again the heads of Tuskegee have spoken for their race...
...sift charges of Negro peonage on Federal levee construction on the lower Mississippi President Hoover last week appointed a board of inquiry. Three members were Negroes: Tuskegee's Robert Russa Moton, Washington's Judge James A. Cobb and the Urban League's Eugene Kinckle Jones. The fourth member was Lieut.-Colonel Ulysses Simpson Grant...
...Government give money, maintain fact-finding services; but let all real control remain with cities or States. Also, the report proposes that after five years no grants be made for special forms of education-adult, vocational, agricultural. To this section, the Committee's Negro members-President Robert Russa Moton of Tuskegee Institute, President Mordecai Wyatt Johnson of Howard University, President John W. Davis of West Virginia Collegiate Institute-took strong exception in a minority report, pointing out that Negro education is highly dependent upon special grants...
...members included Julian Harris, news director of the Atlanta Constitution and son of Uncle Remus' creator; President William Joseph McGlothlin of Furman University; Dr. Howard Washington Odum of the University of North Carolina. Noted Negroes on the Commission were President John Hope of Atlanta University, Principal Robert Russa Moton of Tuskegee Institute, President Benjamin...
Tall, deep-voiced, grey-wooled Dr. Moton was Dr. Washington's successor at Tuskegee, and like him a graduate of Hampton Institute at Hampton, Va. Ever since he was called to Tuskegee at Dr. Washington's death in 1915 he has de voted himself dynamically to its advancement. Though many Negro leaders be lieve that the salvation of their race is not to be found by such purely industrial training as Tuskegee offers, all recognize Dr. Moton as one of their great leaders, a potent contact-man between the Negro and the White. Last week Dr. Meredith Ashby Jones, white...