Robert Russa Moton

Robert Russa Moton (August 26, 1867 - May 31, 1940) was an African American educator and administrator. Born in Amelia County, Virginia, Moton graduated from the Hampton Institute in 1890 and was appointed commandant of the male student cadet corps there the following year. He married Elizabeth Hunt Harris in 1905, but she died in 1906. He married his second wife, Jennie Dee Booth in 1908. In 1915 he was elected principal of the Tuskegee Institute, a position he held until retirement in 1935. Moton died in Capahosic, Virginia. Moton Field, the initial training base for the Tuskegee Airmen was named after him.

Moton became involved in various aspects of public service.

1918, Traveled to France at the request of President Woodrow Wilson to inspect black troops stationed there by the United States.
1923, Played a leading role in the establishment of the Veterans Administration Hospital for Negroes, Tuskegee, Alabama.
1927, Chairman of the American National Red Cross, Colored Advisory Commission on the Great Mississippi Flood.
1930, Chairman of the United States Commission on Education in Haiti.

Finding A Way Out (autobiography). Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1920. ISBN 0837118972
What the Negro Thinks. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929.
Some Elements Necessary To Race Development, 1913.
Negro of Today: Remarkable Growth Of Fifty Years, 1921.
Racial Good Will Addresses, 1916.
Negros Debt to Lincoln, 1922.
Frissell the Builder: Address at the Dedication of the Frissell Memorial Organ in Ogden Hall, Hampton Institute, 1923.

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