Nine women from the Tuskegee Institute in their graduation gowns posing in front of the Charles Keck’s statue of Booker T. Washington “Lifting the Veil of Ignorance.”

Caption accompanying photograph: Tuskegee Institute Diploma and Degree Nurses.

Tuskegee Institute , 1902-1964. General Education Board records; General Education Board photographs – Series 1054; Rockefeller Archive Center.