Give a brief account of Washington's arrival at the Tuskegee night school.

In Chapter Seven, near the end of Washington's first year teaching at the night school, General Armstrong approached him with the opportunity to take charge of a school for colored people in the town of Tuskegee, Alabama. Tuskegee was located in what was known as the Black Belt of the south, in which colored people outnumbered whites. Washington expected to find a building and everything needed to begin teaching. While he was disappointed in that regard, he did find "that which no costly building and apparatus can supply - hundreds of hungry, earnest souls who wanted to secure knowledge" (41).