Tuskegee to Voorhees; The Booker T. Washington Idea Projected by Elizabeth Evelyn Wright

Tuskegee To Voorhees – is a biography of Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, an African American woman who was an educator and humanitarian activist, founding several schools for black children. She founded the Danish Industrial Institute in Denmark, South Carolina as a school for African American youth to receive a decent education. It is now the modern-day Voorhees College, a historically black college (HBCU). Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are a special category of universities in the United States, created specifically to educate the African American population. Miss Wright was a poor girl, but endowed with wealth beyond the reach of people using the wealth of an abiding faith. She had a dream of seeing big buildings in wide, growing fields, each building filled with impatient youth, with paths leading to the world traversed by hundreds of colored boys and girls, full of hope, strong, confident. She struggled with countless troubles and problems until the fields were fenced off, buildings were built and children gathered. She made her dream come true.