"Tuskegee" Pronounce,Meaning And Examples

"Tuskegee" Meaning

The Tuskegee Institute was a historically black college in Alabama that was established in 1881 by Booker T. Washington. The "Tuskegee" also refers to the Tuskegee experiments, a series of medical experiments conducted on African American men without their informed consent from 1932 to 1972.

"Tuskegee" Examples

Usage Examples of "Tuskegee"

1. Historical Reference

The Tuskegee Experiment was a medical ethics scandal in which African American men from Macon County, Alabama, were intentionally left untreated for syphilis, even after a cure became available.

2. Place Name

The city of Tuskegee is situated in Macon County, in the central part of the U.S. state of Alabama. It has a rich railroad history and was once an important point for the railroad's operations.

3. Air Force Base

The historic Maxwell-Gunter Annex began as an Army Air Corps training field in 1917 on a location near Maxwell Gunter Field, which later became a separate Army Air Forces Base, home to the students attending the Army Air Forces Training Detachment (flying school) and the Gunter Air Field, later became the Gunter Instrument Fair in 1918.

4. University

Tuskegee University is a historically black college/ university (HBCU) in Macon County, Alabama, USA. It was founded in 1881 by Lewis Adams, a freed slave, and George W. Campbell, a teacher, when the city of Tuskegee gave land to create the State Normal School for the Colored Race to provide education to African Americans in the region.

5. School Name

Tuskegee Airmen High School was a public high school of the Chicago Public Schools district situated in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood of Chicago's South Side.