text: It is where , in 1881 , Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers , which later became Tuskegee Institute and then Tuskegee University , with the mission of educating a newly freed people for self-sufficiency , and was the birthplace of Rosa Louise Parks in 1913 .
simplified: It is where , in 1881 , Lewis Adams founded the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers , which later became Tuskegee Institute and then Tuskegee University , with the mission of educating a newly freed people for self-sufficiency , and was the birthplace of Rosa Louise Parks in 1913 .