The Phoenix index., 1941-02-01
Tuskegee Founders
Home To Be Visited
On Radio Pill grimage
Ted Malone
TO Broadcast
From "Oaks" "

TUSKEGEE. Ala-(SNS) S)-Book-
er T Washington, great Negro
educEtor and founder of Tuskegee
Institute, will be honored on Tee
Malone's American Pilgrimage Sun
day, February 2 when NBC micro
phones are set up in Mr.. Washing
tons den at THE Oaks" on the
Tuskegee Institute campus at Tus-
kegee, Alabama, where the author
OF up From Slavery lived for
twenty years. The program will be
heard over the Coast-to- Coast Blue
Network Of the National Broadcast
ing Company at 200 p. m. EST.
A group of Tuskegee students will
sing spirituals arranged by Mr..
Dawson, music director of the In
Stitute: and the first registrar and
first treasurer of Tuskegee, con-
temporaries of Mr. Washington, as
well IS President F.. ID. Patterson,
will be present as Mr.. Malone tells
the dramaic story of Booker T.
WaShington's life
BORN IN VIRGINIA
The story Of what hunger for
BETTER things and passionate de-
sire for education can accomplish
began when Mr.. Washington was
slave valued at $400 and son of a
slave-mcther who was a cook on the
Burroughs plantation near Lynch
burg, Virginia. He had his first
taste of what q schoolroom looked
like when he carried the Masters
children'S books to school," From
the first opportunity to study
which came after the Civil War
when the family moved to Maiden,
West Virginia, he dreamed of
Hampton Normal and Agricultural
Institute as the Gates of Heaven"
and although he had to sleep under
board in the sidewalk in Rich
mond on his way to Hampton, it
was only a few years before he was
appointed to the faculty Of the
same institution.
The chapter on Tuskegee Insti-
tute, the crowning achievement of
his life, began when he started
teaching about forty students in
"dilapidated shanty near the
Methodist church which was in
such poor repair that when it
rained a student would leave his
lessons and hold an umbrella over
me while / heard recitations. He
was an inspiration to his students,
and his ability to plead his cause
brilliantly throughout the north and
south won the admiration of the
whole nation as Well as the per-
sonal friendship of the most prom
inent men of his day. When Booker
T. Washington died in 1915, Tus-
kegee owned over $1,000 acres of
land and 100 buildings, had 1887
students and 1877 faculty members.
PART OF PILGRIMAGE
Ted Malone, who will make this
broadcast ana who is journeying to
thirty-one homes Of famous Ameri-
can authors this winter. tried out
his technique Of "story-telling-on-
the-spot" last year when he visited
the poets homes. This year Ggain he
is working on the theory that
certain amount of awe is attached
to actually being III the house
where s. great man lived and work.
ed and that by radio the feeling
may be transmitted to the vast au-
dience which can never hope to
make such a pilgrimage in reality
Whenever possible, he use, some
sound effects, such as the ruStling
of a famous manuscript OF the
striking of clock, the rapplllg OF
a can or the scratching of a pen.
Malone is also familiar to large
weekday audience for his poetry
raading program. Between the
Bookends," and to readers of Good
Housekeeping Magazine, Of which
he is Poetry Editor.