Construction of the liberty ship "Booker T. Washington." Booker T. Washington believed in industrial education for Negroes. One Negro youth who heeded his advice and attended Tuskegee Institute in Alabama is now a skilled worker in the shipyard, which has named a liberty ship for the noted Negro educator. Ernest Enloe Cotton, who studied sheet-metal work at Tuskegee, is shown in his welding job at the California Shipbuilding Corporation yards