1929 - Education

Education

Liberia's Booker T. Washington Institute is founded in June at Kakata with support from the Phelps-Stokes Fund and Firestone Rubber Co. (whose million-acre plantation is nearby). Liberia's president C. D. B. King has visited Tuskegee Institute and hired MIT's first black graduate to design the campus and a course of instruction for the coeducational college. Now 61, Robert R. Taylor has been at Tuskegee since 1902 and will remain there until his death in 1942.

"The so-called method of coeducation is false in theory and harmful to Christian training," proclaims Pope Pius XI December 31 in his encyclical Divini illius magistri.