Universities and colleges--Finance; Universities and colleges--Endowments; African American universities and colleges; Tuskegee (Ala.); Tuskegee Institute
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Origin Information
1900-12-20
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
digitized microfilm
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 76
Note (Status of gift)
Promised and made
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
Date based on grant approval.
Note (Historical note)
found: Tuskegee University WWW Home page, Mar. 7, 2002 (Names Over the Years; founded 1881 Normal School for Colored Teachers; 1881-1887 Tuskegee State Normal School; 1887-1891 Tuskegee Normal School; 1891-1937 Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute ; 1937-1985 Tuskegee Institute; 1985-Present Tuskegee University; became law on Feb. 12, 1881, thus establishing Tuskegee Normal School for the training of black teachers; Booker T. Washington opened the school on Jul. 4, 1881; Alabama Legislature, by Act No. 71, passed in 1892, reconstituted and established Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute as a public body and corporation of the State of Alabama with full power of action and authority vested in a Board of Trustees; Tuskegee was founded as Tuskegee Normal in 1881, redesignated Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1893, changed to Tuskegee Institute in 1937 and renamed Tuskegee University in 1985)" [SOURCE: "Tuskegee Institute." Library of Congress Name Authority File, http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80036583. Accessed 20 Jul. 2018.] "Andrew Carnegie has given $600,000 to Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama." [SOURCE: "CARNEGIE ENRICHES TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE." Los Angeles Times (1886-1922), Apr 24, 1903, pp. 1. ProQuest, http://ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/164215101?accountid=10226. Accessed 3 Aug. 2018.]
Language
English
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University