Tuskegee

[tuhs-kee-gee]

noun

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

Example Sentences

The Defense Department purges images, biographies and histories that reference the Tuskegee Airmen, the Navajo code talkers and baseball legend Jackie Robinson.

From Salon

Other government agencies took it upon themselves to remove references to renowned Black heroes, including the Tuskegee Airmen.

From Salon

“Everyone at the Defense Department loves Jackie Robinson, as well as the Navajo Code Talkers, the Tuskegee airmen, the Marines at Iwo Jima and so many others,” Ullyot stated.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From BBC

Surgeon General from 1936 to 1948, whose most heinous failure, however, was support for the infamous Tuskegee Experiment and equally horrific research in Guatemala.

From Salon