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Robert Russa Moton (August 26, 1867 – May 31, 1940) was an African American educator and author. He served as an administrator at Hampton Institute. In 1915 he was named principal of Tuskegee Institute, after the death of founder Dr. Booker T. Washington, a position he held for 20 years until retirement in 1935. ==Biography== Robert Russa Moton was born in Amelia County, Virginia, on August 26, 1867, and raised in nearby Rice, Prince Edward County, Virginia. He graduated from the Hampton Institute in 1890. He married Elizabeth Hunt Harris in 1905, but she died in 1906. He married his second wife, Jennie Dee Booth, in 1908. They had three daughters together: Charlotte Moton (Hubbard), who became a deputy assistant secretary of state at the State Department under President Lyndon B. Johnson; Catherine Moton (Patterson); and Jennie Moton (Taylor). All three married and had families. In 1891, Moton was appointed commandant of the male student cadet corps at Hampton Institute, equivalent to Dean of Men, serving in this position for more than a decade. He was informally known as the "Major". In 1915, after the death of Dr. Booker T. Washington, Moton succeeded Washington as the second principal of the Tuskegee Institute. While supporting the work-study program, he emphasized education, integrating "liberal arts into the curriculum, establishing bachelor of science degrees in agriculture and education. He improved courses of study, especially in teacher training, elevated the quality of the faculty and administration, constructed new facilities, and significantly increased the endowment by maintaining his connections to wealthy white benefactors in the North."〔 He served in this position until retirement in 1935. During this period, he agreed to donate 300 acres from the Institute property to enable development of what became the Tuskegee Veterans Administration Medical Center, a home and hospital to serve African-American veterans from World War I, of whom there were an estimated 300,000 in the South. Moton, together with the NAACP and the National Medical Association (a group of black doctors), appealed directly to President Warren G. Harding to gain a commitment for blacks to have access to these jobs, as whites were trying to take control of the facility. This center soon hired numerous black professionals, attracting doctors and nurses from across the country. Moton wrote a number of books while he served as principal. He attended the First Pan-African Congress in Paris in 1919, meeting other educators and activists from around the world. Moton was a member of the Gamma Sigma graduate chapter of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, along with George Washington Carver.〔Crystal A. Degregory, ("Saluting Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. | HBCU Standouts" ), HBCU Story, January 9, 2014.〕 Robert R. Moton died in Capahosic, in Gloucester County, Virginia, in 1940 at the age of 73. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Russa Moton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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