ker T. Washington displayed an interest in Africa. He enrolled a number of African students at Tuskegee. In 1901, he traveled to Africa to introduce modern techniques of cotton culture. The mission was successful because today, the country ranks 5th in the economy. Washington sponsored other missions to Africa but none proved to be more successful than that one. Booker T. Washington was married three times. In 1882, Fannie N. Smith, who was a graduate of Hampton, became his first wife. She ended up dying two years later and left him a daughter. His second marriage, which was in 1885, was to Olivia A. Davidson, taught at Tuskegee but also died in 1889 leaving him two sons. His third wife, whom he married in 1893, was Margaret James Murray was the lady principal at Tuskegee survived him. All throughout his life, he wrote pamphlets and books on the Negro subject. Among his works were Sowing and Reaping in 1900; Up From Slavery, his autobiography, 1901; The Story of my Life and Work, 1903; Frederick Douglass, 1907, and My Larger Education, 1911. Today on the Tuskegee Campus, there is a bronze statue made by Charles Keck of Booker T. Washington. It depicts Washington removing the scales from the eyes of a Negro slave. The statue says below it: No man, black or white, from North or South, shall drag me down so low as to make me hate him. On the death of Booker T. Washington on November 14, 1915, the condition of the Negro and his relation to the American community had been transformed. All his life he had committed himself to industrial education for Negroes, rather than higher learning....
