Tuskegee

[tuhs-kee-gee]

noun

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

Example Sentences

He had become a major donor to the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

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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.

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

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

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“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.

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