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Early Days At Tuskegee
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How did Washington learn he had been selected to lead the new school in Tuskegee, Alabama?
A
Through a formal letter of appointment mailed directly to him
B
He applied directly to the Alabama state legislature for the position
C
General Armstrong received a telegram reading, in substance, "Booker T. Washington will suit us. Send him at once," after recommending Washington when the Alabama committee assumed no suitable Black man could be found
D
He was elected to the post by a vote of Tuskegee's Black residents
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