Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, General Research and Reference Division

Emmett J. Scott, Booker T. Washington: Builder of a Civilization (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916)

Christian missions established in Africa sent some students to the United States. They generally studied in historically black colleges and universities. This group of young men and women, enrolled at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, came from the British colonies of Africa and the West Indies.