Lifting the Veil of Ignorance Statue in Tuskegee

Lifting the Veil of Ignorance is a monument to educator Booker T. Washington on the campus of Tuskegee University in Macon County. The sculpture, by New York artist Charles Keck, was dedicated in 1922.

Bronze monument depicting a standing figure with an outstretched arm beside a seated figure holding an open book beneath a draped covering, mounted on a stone pedestal engraved with the name Booker T. Washington.

Photograph by Valerie Glenn

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Bronze monument depicting a standing figure with an outstretched arm beside a seated figure holding an open book beneath a draped covering, mounted on a stone pedestal engraved with the name Booker T. Washington.