Handwritten manuscript of the diary kept by John E. T. Milsaps from 1852 to 1877.
John Ephraim Thomas Milsaps - bibliophile, salvationist, traveler and diarist - was born in Houston, Texas on January 3, 1852. After leaving his home as a young man...
The author describes this historically Black college located in Tuskegee, Alabama from the point of view of his visit to the campus ca. 1908; and talks about the founder of the school, Mr. Booker Washington.