Historic Alabama: Training Future Engineers

A look inside a classroom at Tuskegee Institute in 1902

Students are shown in a mechanical drawing class at Tuskegee Institute in 1902, about 20 years after the school was founded. In 1902, Booker T. Washington was still principal of Tuskegee. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This article appears in the May 2026 issue of Business Alabama.