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Tuskegee

American  
[tuhs-kee-gee] / tʌsˈki gi /

noun

  1. a city in E Alabama: location of Tuskegee Institute.


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Of Tuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, a president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., who built schools — more than 5,000 nationally, eventually — for systemically disadvantaged Black students.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

They also told the life stories of members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the country's first black military airmen.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2025

But Tuskegee is happening in Macon County, Alabama, thousands of miles away.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2024

“The Real Red Tails,” narrated by Sheryl Lee Ralph, recaps the discovery of a WWII-era Tuskegee airmen plane in Lake Huron, Michigan.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2024

On the side of knowing better were his mother and father, all the teachers he knew, the deacons from church, Booker T. Washington, and the diligent faculty of the Tuskegee Institute.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

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