Tuskegee
Americannoun
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Firefighters bandaged him and encouraged the Tuskegee University student to go to a hospital the next town over to receive stitches and medicine.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Like Tuskegee, it will become part of the newly redrawn second district.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
LaPread began playing with the Commodores in 1970 alongside Lionel Richie, William “WAK” King, Milan Williams and Thomas McClary while they were students at Tuskegee Institute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2025
As the Negro Griffin, I walked up the steep hill to the bus station in Montgomery to get the schedule for buses to Tuskegee.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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