to that also and the program did work just as successful as it did with African Americans. Over the years Hampton improved germatically.One evening at the end of Washington's second year on the staff at Hampton, General Armstrong in the chapel a letter from Alabama requesting a teacher for a black school. The next morning the General asked Booker if he would take the assignment. Booker thought about it and then said yes. When he arrived in June of 1881, he brought ideas with him, from Hampton, that the whites and blacks of Macon, Alabama were very foreign to. You see lots of schools for blacks had the idea that teaching a New England style of teaching, like the kids in England were taught, to blacks would turn blacks into successful people. Booker had a different idea and style of teaching. His philosophy was that teaching blacks famous composers, arts, and history is necessary, but comes in time. The first thing adult blacks should be taught is a trade. Let them pick a trade in which they would like to work in. Most in those days picked farming. Washington felt it would be more beneficial if blacks were taught agriculture, or what-ever there trade was, so they can make more money on their crops. With teaching blacks these skills they are able to go somewhere in life. They're able to compete right along with the white man. Then once that it established, teacher's should go to work on other subjects. Washington felt as though that was the way to educate black adults. Booker believed that education was defiantly the key to success.Washington literally built Tuskegee from the grown up. He had nothing but a $2,000 grant from the state for salaries and permission to build a training school for black teachers. After a tour of Alabama communities to gauge the regiion's most immediate needs, Booker enrolled the first year's class in a shanty loaned by a local church. The class consist of 30 students. Washington knew there would be a big tur...
