African American students working in a mechanized

African American students working in a mechanized wood workshop at Tuskegee Institute, c. 1902. Most students came from the rural South, where occupation skills would help them enrich their own communities. Also, they could work in the White communities, where racial oppression limited their employment in public positions or professions. Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston (BSLOC_2017_20_132)

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