Twain and Choate Plead for Tuskegee

Five score and six years ago today, Mark Twain and Booker T. Washington took the stage at Carnegie Hall to raise funds for Tuskegee.

You can read an account of it from a newspaper article back in the day, here.

Note: you might like to know that Dr. Washington was offered $10,000 (more like $200,000 when adjusted for inflation) simply to state publicly that he, "did not desire social equality for the negro, and that Tuskegee was opposed to the amalgamation of the races." Our man of character, Booker T., the Society's namesake, refused.

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