On July 4, 1881, educator and activist Booker T. Washington established the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, now known as Tuskegee University. Washington took on the role of the institution’s first principal, overseeing the inaugural class held in a modest one-room church. It wasn’t until a year later that the school’s first […]
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