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Tuskegee (tus-ke'ge) Normal and Industrial Institute, a school for the education of the negro. It was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881 at Tuskegee, Alabama. Washington began with a hundred acres of pine land and a small cabin. The first students built their own cabins and cleared the land. Later, both the state and nation granted aid. The institution also received large donations from philanthropists. The present property is worth half a million dollars. There are 150 instructors and 1,500 students, all colored. There are 2,631 acres of land and over 60 buildings. The aim of the school is to train colored teachers, farmers, housekeepers, and mechanics, and especially to teach the value and the dignity of labor. So far as practicable students are enabled to work their way. The best account is to be gained from Washington's autobiographical work, Up from Slavery, and a later volume, Tuskegee and Its School.