![]() ![]() Much like the Normal School in Hampton, Tuskegee aimed to train black men to become teachers. The school would soon become known simply as Tuskegee Institute. Although he was only 25 years old, Washington became the first principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1881. He was then recommended to become principal at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, a new school organized by former slave Lewis Adams. ![]() Washington excelled in his studies and soon came back to teach at Hampton. The purpose of the Normal School was to train freed black men to become teachers. ![]() At the age of sixteen, Booker enrolled at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Hampton, Virginia. Booker soon learned to read and write and was even allowed to attend school. Because he was hard-working and intelligent, he was hired as a houseboy by the wife of the mine's owner. At an early age, he worked with other recently freed slaves a salt-packer in a coal mine. At the age of nine, Booker, his mother, and siblings were freed and moved to Kanawha County, West Virginia. Because his parents were slaves owned by the Burroughs family, Booker was immediately born into slavery. Washington was born on Apin Franklin County, Virginia. ![]()
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