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Booker T. Washington
First Principal and Builder of Tuskegee Institute
1881
The contribution
How this work helped shape America
Booker T. Washington became the first principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School in 1881. Building on the institution's local founding efforts, he developed Tuskegee into a nationally influential center for academic, agricultural, industrial, and skilled-trades education.