George Washington Carver Museum at Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site, Alabama

Tuskegee Normal School was established by the state of Alabama, influenced by a former slave and a former slave owner to educate newly freed people and their children. The Normal school later Institute became a beacon of hope for African Americans to reach their goal of acceptance. The school officially opened on July 4, 1881. Booker T. Washington became the first principal of a newly formed school at the age of twenty-six. He later hired individuals like George W. Carver and Robert Taylor to help with the development of the institute to its world renowned status.