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1. TUSK_161107_015.JPG: C. Keck, Sc. Charles Keck From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Keck (September 9, 1875 – April 23, 1951) was an American sculptor from New York City, New York. Early life and education Keck studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York with Philip Martiny, and was an assistant to Augustus Saint-Gaudens from 1893 to 1898. He also attended the American Academy in Rome. In 1921 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1928. He is best known for his monuments and architectural sculpture. His interment was located at Fishkill Rural cemetery. Career Architectural sculpture * Brooklyn Museum, Genius of Islam, McKim, Mead and White, architects, NYC, 1908 * Pennsylvania Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1908 * Soldiers and Sailors National Military Museum and Memorial, Pittsburgh, 1910 * Oakland City Hall, Palmer & Hornbostel architects, Oakland, California, 1914 * Pittsburgh City-County Building, Palmer & Hornbostel architects, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1916 * Wilmington City Hall, Palmer & Hornbostel architects, Wilmington, Delaware, 1917 * Education Building, Albany, New York * Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri * Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Schultze & Weaver architects, NYC, 1931 * Essex County Building Annex, Newark, New Jersey, c. 1930 * Jackson County Court House, Wight & Wight, architects, Kansas City Missouri, 1934 * Bronx County Courthouse, Freedlander & Hausle architects, Bronx, New York, 1933 * Campus gates, Columbia University, New York City Monuments and memorials * Minot Monument, Goshen, New York, with architect Thomas Harlan Ellett, dedicated May, 1912. * The John B. Murphy Memorial, Chicago, Illinois * Amicitia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * George Washington, Buenos Aires, Argentina * Manchester Bridge statues, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1917 * Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1919 * Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1921 * Duke Family sarcophagi, Memorial Chapel, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina * Liberty Monument, Ticonderoga, New York, 1924 * Angel of Peace, Exhibition Place, Toronto, 1930 * The Lincoln Monument of Wabash, Indiana, 1932 * Father Duffy, Duffy Square, New York City, 1937 * Huey Long Memorial, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1940 * Huey Long, National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol in Washington D.C., 1941 * Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Alabama * Andrew Jackson, Kansas City, Missouri * Ernest Haass Memorial, Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan * George Rogers Clark Memorial, Springfield, Ohio * Listening Post, Lynchburg, Virginia In 1913 Keck designed a memorial plaque that was cast from metal that had been salvaged from the USS Maine after it was raised in Havana harbor the previous year. Over a thousand of the plaques were cast and they are spread unevenly all over the United States. In 1931, Keck completed the Great Seals of the Commonwealth of Virginia which had been commissioned by the Commonwealth. The obverse of the seal is still used to this day and appears on the state flag. Numismatic works * 1915-S Panama-Pacific Exposition Gold Dollar * 1927 Vermont, Battle of Bennington Sesquicentennial Half Dollar * 1936 Lynchburg Sesquicentennial Half Dollar
2. TUSK_161107_017.JPG: Lifting the Veil of Ignorance In this sculpture by Charles Keck, Booker T. Washington lifts the veil of ignorance from the face of a former slave. The open book, plow, and anvil symbolize Washington's guiding principles of opening the path to education through agriculture and industry. Besides commemorating Washington's accomplishments,the monument marks a new era for the institute under Robert R. Moton, who was president from 1915 to 1935. Moton raised $250,000 to build the memorial as part of a campaign to strengthen the school's endowment. From laying out the site to installing and unveiling the statue in 1922, the monument was a project of pride for students, faculty, and friends of the institute.
3. TUSK_161107_023.JPG: From laying out the site to installing and unveiling the statue in 1922, the monument was a project of pride for students, faculty, and friends of the institute.
4. TUSK_161107_027.JPG: Dorothy Hall "We also felt that we must not only teach the students how to prepare their food but how to serve and eat it properly." -- Booker T. Washington, The Story of My Life and Work Hospitality continues to reign in this building as it has for decades. Students today learn about food preparation and hotel management here at the Kellogg Conference Center in Dorothy Hall. Originally female students attended classes here in sewing, childcare, nursing, and dietetics. For many years the trustees met here, and George Washington Carver lived here from 1938 until he died in 1943. The building is named for Dorothy Lamb Woodbridge, great-great-great grandmother of Caroline and Olivia Phelps-Stokes, major contributors to Tuskegee Institute. Students attend a cooking class in 1908.
5. TUSK_161107_047.JPG: Tuskegee Chapel ". . . I always make it a rule to read a chapter [in the Bible] or a portion of a chapter in the morning, before beginning the work of the day." -- Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery The chapel, designed by Paul Rudolph and former Tuskegee Institute professors John Welch and Louis Fry, is known architecturally for its lack of right angles and its astonishing acoustics. Built in 1969, it replaced architect Robert R. Taylor's original chapel, built in 1896-98 with 1,200,000 bricks made and laid by Tuskegee students. Religion has always played a major role in the life of the school. For many years students were required to attend daily vesper services and two Sunday services. In the chapel they also attended major cultural events, such as concerts by W. C. Handy, John Philip Sousa, and Duke Ellington and speeches by Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King, Jr., and four U.S. Presidents. The present-day chapel contains reproductions of the original chapel's stained glass "Singing Windows" that portray Negro spirituals. The original chapel, which stood on this site, was the first building in the county to have electric lights. It was struck by lightning and destroyed by fire in 1957.
6. TUSK_161107_114.JPG: Tuskegee Cemetery "More than 8,000 people, White and Colored, rich and poor, from the lowliest farm and the richest Fifth Avenue mansion crowded in and around the school chapel to pay homage [to Booker T. Washington]." -- - Baltimore Afro-American, November 20, 1915 The bodies of Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and several other former members of the Tuskegee faculty and staff and their families are buried here in the school's cemetery. The university president determines who is buried here.
7. TUSK_161107_131.JPG: George Washington Carver Died in Tuskegee Alabama -- January 5, 1943 -- A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the South where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.
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Wikipedia Description: Tuskegee University
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Tuskegee University is a private university located in Tuskegee, Alabama and is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. The campus forms the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site and is a National Historic Landmark

History:

Planning and establishment:

The school was the dream of Lewis Adams, a former slave and George W. Campbell, a former slave owner. Adams could read, write and speak several languages despite having no formal education. He also was an experienced tinsmith, harness-maker and shoemaker and Prince Hall Freemason an acknowledged leader of the African-American community in Macon County, Alabama.

During Reconstruction, the period following the American Civil War, the South was impoverished. Many blacks were illiterate and had few employable job skills. Adams was especially concerned that, without an education, the recently freed former slaves would not be able to support themselves. Campbell, of like-thinking, had become a merchant and a banker. He had little experience with educational institutions, but was always willing to contribute all of his resources and efforts to make the school a success.

W.F. Foster, a white candidate for the Alabama Senate, came to Adams with a question. What would Adams want in return for securing the votes of African Americans in Macon County for Foster and another white candidate? In response, Adams asked for a normal school for the free men, freed slaves and their children (a normal school, at that time, was the name for a teacher's college) to be established in the area.

Foster and the other candidate were elected. He worked with the other fellow legislator Arthur L. Brooks to draft and pass legislation authorizing $2,000 to create the school. Adams, Thomas Dyer, and M.B. Swanson formed Tuskegee's first board of commissioners. They wrote to Hampton Institute in Virginia, asking the school to recommend someone to head th ...More...
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