A head shot of Benjamin F. Payton Tuskegee Unversity's fifth president (1981-2010).During his tenure he was instrumental in the creation and development of General Daniel "Chappie" James Center for Aerospace Science Engineering and Health Education.
A black and white image of Tuskegee University's fourth presidentof an older Dr. Luther H. Foster. Dr. Foster led the university through the turbulent years of the Civil Rights Movement.
A black and white image of Tuskegee University's second president Robert Russa Moton. Dr. Moton is instrumental in bringing the Veterans Administration Hospital to Tuskegee, AL. Under his adminstration the academic programs were expanded.
Black and white image of a older Monroe N. Work. Mr. Work was an African American sociologist and founder of the Department of Records and Research at Tuskegee University then Tuskegee Institute.
A black and white photo Dr. Russell W. Brown working in a lab. Dr. Brown worked in a variety of roles in Tuskegee's administration, serving twice as Director of the Carver Research Foundation. During his career, Brown worked extensively in research on bacteriology, immunology, and HeLa cells.
Black and white image of several Tuskegee students protesting in Dorothy Hall and locking themselves in the Board of Trustees in a room. The students demands included financial aid packages for athletes, the end to compulsory participation in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps ROTC program while the war in Vietnam was raging, the formation of a Black studies program, and even changes to the structure of college classes, such as the right to see a syllabi for classes at the beginning of the school year.
Meeting of the first hospital in Macon County Alabama for negroes. Within this photo is the first principle of Tuskegee institute Booker T. Washington and Dr. John A. Kenney.
A photo tacken by C.M. Battey showng the early years of Tuskegee University. This is an image of black female students learning the skill to preserve products in a can.
This image shows three graduate students within the College of Veterinary Medicine conducting an examination of a dog, under the supervision of their professor. An image tacken by university photographer Stephan Smith.
A black and white photo of an elderly George Washington Carver in his lab in the now George Washington Carver Museum. Dr. Carver has a bottle and a beaker in his hands. Carver's picture was tacken by the university's head of photography department and university photographer P.H. Polk.
