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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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Mr. Davies registers the mistrust many patients felt toward medical research after abuses such as the 1932-72 Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Sixty-two miles east of Tuskegee is the rural outpost of Eufaula, where pickup trucks haul fishing boats to the muddy banks of the nearby Chattahoochee River.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

In Tuskegee, a rural Alabama city with less than 9,000 people, over 80% of them African American, nearly one in three people live in poverty.

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

With all the new developments, demand for HeLa grew, and Tuskegee wasn’t big enough to keep up.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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