found: 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 Feb. 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)