| Summary: | "Booker T. Washington, Founder and first Principal of Tuskegee Institute was born a slave 1856 (?), graduated from Hampton Institute (Virginia) in 1878, called to Alabama in 1881 to found the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute, a school for Negroes. The Institute, now a world-famous college, has grown from 30 pupils in a borrowed church to over 12 hundred enrollment, 110 buildings and a 35 hundred acre campus. His autobiography "Up From Slavery" has been translated into more than 19 different languages. He died in 1915 and is buried on the campus of Tuskegee Institute, where, in 1921, a bronze monument to his memory was unveiled. The United States Government selected Booker T. Washington as one of the five American educators to be honored in the 35 Famous American Series of Commemorative Postage Stamps issued in 1940. The Booker T. Washington stamp is of the ten cent denomination."
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