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...graduates, 75% have remained in the South. About half of the remaining 25% originally came out of the North, returned there after graduation. Tuskegee estimates that 35% of its graduates go into teaching, 30% into industry, 20% into "homemaking," 12% into business, 3%, into the professions. Dr. Robert Russa Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, says proudly: "From this we gather that 80% of our graduates are pursuing the line of work in which they were trained." Graduates whom his Institute views with satisfaction include: William Henry Holtzclaw (born in Roanoke, Ala.), founder and principal of Utica Normal and Industrial School...
Robert Russa Moton, Principal of Tuskegee Institute ... LL.D...
...work of the C. M. A. has been carried on by Albon Lewis Holsey, secretary of the National Negro Business League. Trained as secretary to Tuskegee's potent Principal Robert Russa Moton, Organizer Holsey is well able to handle his work. He has written numerous articles on the Negro in business. He also wrote "Learning How to be Black" for the American Mercury. Although in this essay he said, "At fifteen, I was fully conscious of the racial difference, and while I was sullen and resentful in my soul, I was beaten and knew it," his interest and perseverance...
Last week, prompted by Tuskegee Institute's Robert Russa Moton, the foremost newspaper in the land, august New York Times, announced that it would make the typographical change from n to N "as an act in recognition of racial self-respect for those who have been for generations in 'the lower case...
...Philippines; Henry Prather Fletcher, one-time Ambassador to Italy; Elie Vezina of Rhode Island, Papally beknighted newsman; James Kerney, editor of the Trenton (N. J.) Times; William Allen White, Editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. Black: Mr. Hoover appointed an informal, independent commission headed by Robert Russa Moton, President of Tuskegee Institute, to make an exhaustive survey of Haitian education...