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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...
...Robert Russa Moton has built up Tuskegee's endowment from $2,000,000 to $10,000,000, its enrollment to 1,200. He has added an academic course of sorts. But Tuskegee is still what its founder made it. "I have managed," Dr. Moton tells friends, "to wobble around in Mr. Washington's shoes." Impartial Negroes deny that Dr. Moton has ever wobbled, agree that the imprint of the founder's shoes is stamped firmly on Tuskegee's 132 acre campus, its cornfields, cattle range, poultry yards, machine shops...
...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...
...Ackerman '35 defeated Russa (BEB), 5-2; B. S. Miller '35 defeated Steele (BEB), 5-4; B. G. Banan '35 defeated Toorks (BEB), 5-3; B. S. Miller '35 defeated Russo (BEB), 5-3; Steele (BEB) defeated H. G. Banan '35, defeated Banan '35, 5-3; Toorks (BEB), defeated R. S. Ackerman '35, 5-4; H. G. Banan '35 defeated Russo (BEB), 5-2; Steele (BEB), defeated L. T. Rolden '35, 5-4; Rugh Parkhunt '35 defeated Toorks...
...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...