Tuskegee Institute (Corporate Name)

Human resources devel. in rural Amer, 1986: t.p. (Tuskegee University)

NUCMC data from Morgan State University for Emmett J. Scott collection, 1916-1951 (Tuskegee Institute 1897-1919)

Tuskegee University WWW Home page, Mar. 7, 2002 (Names Over the Years; founded 1881 Normal School for Colored Teachers; 1881- 1887 Tuskegee State Normal School; 1887-1891 Tuskegee Normal School; 1891-1937 Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute; 1937-1985 Tuskegee Institute; 1985-Present Tuskegee University; became law on February 12, 1881, thus establishing Tuskegee Normal School for the training of black teachers; Booker T. Washington opened the school on July 4, 1881; Alabama Legislature, by Act No. 71, passed in 1892, reconstituted and established Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute as a public body and corporation of the State of Alabama with full power of action and authority vested in a Board of Trustees; Tuskegee was founded as Tuskegee Normal in 1881, redesignated Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1893, changed to Tuskegee Institute in 1937 and renamed Tuskegee University in 1985)

Est. in 1881