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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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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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