On This Day In Alabama History: Tuskegee University Was Founded

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

The Tuskegee State Normal School, now Tuskegee University, was founded July 4, 1881. At the urging of Lewis Adams, an influential black leader, a bill was passed to open the school in Macon County. Although the bill provided $2,000 annually to pay the faculty, no money was set aside for infrastructure. Booker T. Washington, an instructor at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) in Virginia, accepted the challenge to lead the new school. With no money for instructional space, Booker held classes at a nearby African Methodist Episcopal church.

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