Black History Month
February 2025
Left: Standing erect, regal, and confident, a gentleman, Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee Institute and later, advisor to Christiansburg Industrial Institute. An educator and author, dressed in 1890s style, in front of the Hill School on Zion Hill, now High Street.
Right: Rev. Charles S. Schaeffer, former Union Soldier and Baptist Minister from Philadelphia, and founder of Christiansburg Industrial Institute, dressed in 1860s style, confident and stately, in front of the historic Schaeffer Memorial Church.
Washington and Schaeffer probably never met one another. This painting is symbolic only, a hypothetical meeting of two renowned gentlemen who brought their legacy of establishing and advancing Black higher education opportunities to Virginia.
Harkrader 2025
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