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America’s network of Black colleges was founded to provide essential opportunity. For many, they’ve come to offer something else: a link to a treasured legacy.
Frances B. Johnston, one of the first women in the United States to enjoy a long and fruitful career as a professional photographer, had by all accoun
Undaunted by obstacles facing her gender, she carved out a career taking portraits of celebrities and creating series on architecture and education.
Booker T. Washington, educator and reformer, first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), and the most influential spokesman for African Americans between 1895 and 1915. In the Atlanta Compromise he articulated the benefits of vocational education.
Norton was born enslaved about 1840 in Williamsburg of mixed-race ancestry. He was a younger brother by about a decade of F. S. Norton, who was also a member of the House of Delegates (1869–1871), and an elder brother of Daniel M. Norton, who was a member of the Convention of 1867–1868 and of the Senate of Virginia (1871–1873, 1877–1887). They may have been sons of an enslaved woman and her owner. The identities of their parents are not known for certain, and Robert Norton provided different names for his mother on each of his two marriage records: Richard and Elizabeth without surnam...