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July 4th

2 events recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 1881
    The Rise

    Tuskegee Institute opens

    Booker T. Washington opens the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers in Tuskegee, Alabama, with thirty students in a one-room shanty behind a Black church. George Washington Carver joins the faculty in 1896 and keeps the institute at the frontier of agricultural science.

  2. 1892
    The Rise

    A.G. Gaston born

    Arthur George Gaston is born in Demopolis, Alabama. He builds a $130 million Black business empire from a Birmingham rooming house and, in 1963, bails Dr. King out of the Birmingham jail.

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