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

From Literature

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

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

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