Robert Russa Moton of Hampton and Tuskegee

This is the inspiring biography of the one-time commandant of cadets at Hampton Institute and the successor to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute as related by his lifelong friends, colleagues, and students. The years he spent at Tuskegee in the shadow of the great and the vision and courage necessary to change that institution from a vocational school to a liberal arts college are vividly recounted.

Originally published in 1956.

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