BOOKER WASHINGTON IN UNION

Booker T. Washington h.'96, president of Tuskegee Institute, will lecture on "Negro Progress" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8.15 o'clock.

Booker T. Washington, widely known as an educator and one of the most enlightened of his race, was born in Virginia just before the Civil War. His ambition for knowledge led him to travel five hundred miles "by walking and begging rides both in wagons and in cars" to Hampton Institute from which he graduated in 1875, later becoming an instructor in the same institution. In 1881 he was called upon to organize and become the head of a negro normal school at Tuskegee, Alabama, for which the State legislature had made an annual appropriation. Opened in July 1881 in a little shanty and church, the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute became under his administration the foremost exponent of industrial education for the negro race. Harvard University conferred upon him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1896 and Dartmouth that of LL.D. in 1901.