Tuskegee Institute was created in 1880 by an act of the Alabama state legislature. In 1881 Booker T. Washington, the Institute's first president, formally opened the Normal School for Colored Teachers. In 1892 the Institute was granted institutional independence through another act of the legislature, which allowed the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute to act independently of the state of Alabama. The Institute attained university status in 1985. Photograph from the Schomburg Photographs and Prints Division (Wilcox Collection).
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2007. Digitized from a copy held by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
Location of Originals
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
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From the Collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library