Above: Class picture, Howard University, Washington, DC, ca. 1900
Source: http://www.howard.edu/explore/paris/circa1900.htm
Above: Shirley Jackson
Source: http://shawnadderly.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/black-history-month-famous-black-engineers-and-scientists/
More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Ann_Jackson
Shirley Ann Jackson (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and the eighteenth president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a prestigious engineering school. She received her Ph.D. in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, becoming the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate at MIT in nuclear physics. She worked on inventions that lead to the creation of caller id and call waiting. She has become one of the highest paid university presidents in the nation.
Above: George Washington Carver with Tuskegee Institute Staff, 1902
Source: http://www.blackhistoryheroes.com/2010/07/george-washington-carver-scientist-and.html
Additional Information: http://www.tuskegee.edu/about_us/legacy_of_fame/george_w_carver.aspx
Du Bois, 1911
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_dubois
Above: Booker T. Washington, 1902
Source: http://www.christiansburginstitute.org/btw/tuskegee.html
Above: Tuskegee Executive Council
Left to Right, top row: Robert R. Taylor, R. M. Attwell, Julius Ramsey, Edgar J. Penney, Matthew T. Driver, Henry G. Maberry, George Washington Carver.
Left to Right, bottom row: Jane E. Clark, Emmett J. Scott, Booker T. Washington, Warren Logan, John H.Washington.
Not shown: Roscoe C. Bruce, Charles H. Gibson, and Margaret M. Washington.
Source: http://www.bestviablepractices.com/?p=430
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