[ Autograph ] Booker T. Washington 1856-1915 Black American educatorborn a slave, established and headed Tuskegee Institute to provide practical training to blacks. T.L.S. on Tuskeegee Institute letterhead, lp. oblong 8vo., Fort Salonga, N.Y., July 4, 1911 to Washington Tate at Tuskeegee. Washington has received a copy of the publication The Messenger, adding: "...I have been very much interested to note the article and thank you for sending it to me. I think it is a very good idea to put such articles in The Messenger...' Trimmed at bottom, away from signature and text.