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"Dr. [George Washington Carver] treated me when I was a kid," Ashley recounted. "My brother took me up to the [George Washington Carver] museum to visit Dr. Carver after he noticed that I had ringworm on my head. Dr. Carver looked at my head, turned it a couple of times, went into the back room, and came back with some salve on his hand. He rubbed it onto my head and then walked us out saying, 'You will be fine, young man.'"
"When I was a kid every notable black scholar, entertainer, activist, preacher, etc., made a stop in Tuskegee," [Tom Joyner] said. "I remember seeing Dr. King and members of the Black Panthers...So many remarkable people were residents of Tuskegee, such as Tuskegee airmen Benjamin O. Davis and Chappie James, George Washington Carver and [Booker T. Washington]."The debate coach Denzel Washington portrayed in [the feature film] The Great Debaters, Melvin B. Tolson, lived in Tuskegee and taught at the college," Joyner added. "Our town was very rich with accomplished African Americans and it made us kids feel like there was nothing that we couldn't do."See the full content of this document
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Making His Stamp On Black History
DELRAY BEACH - Al Ashley was only 5 years old when his father look him by the hand and led him up to the chapel at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama to participate in a monumental celebration.
Ashley watched as his father beamed with pride, tea...See the full content of this document
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