he Oaks, located on the campus of Tuskegee Institute, was both the home of Booker T. Washington and his family and the social center of the school. A Queen Anne-style red brick house, The Oaks features friezes in the parlor and library depicting highlights of the Washington family's trip to Europe during 1915, the year construction began on the house.
he W.E.B. Du Bois Papers, located in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, covers every stage in the career of this social reformer. In the early 1970s, University of Massachusetts officials negotiated with Shirley Graham Du Bois to create a permanent location for her husband's papers. Including the draft of an 1877 letter the nine year old Du Bois wrote to his grandmother, the collection is especially rich with correspondence from his time as editor of NAACP's The Crisis (1910-1934) and his years in Ghana, where Du Bois died in 1963.
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he Oaks, located on the campus of Tuskegee Institute, was both the home of Booker T. Washington and his family and the social center of the school. A Queen Anne-style red brick house, The Oaks features friezes in the parlor and library depicting highlights of the Washington family's trip to Europe during 1915, the year construction began on the house.
