Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers

Tuskegee Normal school for Colored Teachers

• This historical event took place in Tuskegee, Al. in 1881. The state of Alabama Superintendent wrote to Gen. S.C. Armstrong, the Principal over Hampton Normal Agricultural Institution to request a fit Principal for the new school.

• Booker T. Washington was selected to be the new principal of Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers.

Teachers of Tuskegee

• . Botanist George Washington Carver, Robert Taylor, the first black architect to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and David A. Williston, one of the first black landscape architects in America, were faculty members. Washington appointed highly skilled industrial instructors to teach trades

• These were the teachers that were trained to teach at Tuskegee

Faculty Formed

• Faculty was formed at the Tuskegee Normal School

• Funds were $2,000 for the school to pay all the teachers and no extra money for any furniture for the school

• African Americans were impacted and thus rewarded from this event

• Using his outstanding fundraising capabilities and negotiating skills, Washington purchased an abandoned plantation of 1,000 acres. The plantation became the nucleus of Tuskegee Institute and Tuskegee University's present campus. By 1906, the school had 156 faculty members, 1,590 students, and owned 2,300 acres of land. Although Tuskegee Institute receives an appropriation from the State of Alabama, the school remains a private institution.

• This event is connected to my grade level, because this was a huge mild stone for the advancement of African Americans in the south. Booker T. Washington was the first African American Principal in Alabama.

• This relates to my beliefs because Booker T. Washington used the 6 P’s – Proper, Preparation, Prevents, Piss, Poor, Performance

REFERENCE

• http://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/tuskegee/btwtusk.htm

• https://archive.org/stream/tuskegeenormalin01ludl#page/n9/mode/2up