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Tuskegee's mission has always been service to people. Stressing the need to educate the whole person, that is, the hand and the heart as well as the mind, This institution founded by Dr. Booker T. Washington was acclaimed--first by Alabama and then by the nation for the soundness and vigor of its educational programs and principles.
Tuskegee (/ t ʌ ˈ s k iː ɡ i / tuh-SKEE-ghee) is a city in Macon County, Alabama, United States. General Thomas Simpson Woodward, a Creek War veteran under Andrew Jackson, laid out the city and founded it in 1833. It became the county seat in the same year and it was incorporated in 1843. It is the most populous city in Macon County.
Tuskegee University (Tuskegee or TU; formerly known as the Tuskegee Institute) is a private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama. It was founded on July 4th in 1881 by the Alabama Legislature .
May 16, 2017 · The Tuskegee experiment began in 1932, at a time when there was no known cure for syphilis, a contagious venereal disease. After being recruited by the promise of free medical care, 600 African...
May 3, 2024 · Maps. Calendar. Fees. Bricks and Peanuts. In 1881, Booker T. Washington arrived in Alabama and started building Tuskegee Institute both in reputation and literally brick by brick. He recruited the best and the brightest to come and teach here including George Washington Carver who arrived in 1896.
Forty years earlier, in 1932, federal scientists began studying 400 Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, who were infected with syphilis. When antibiotics became available in the 1940s that could treat ...
2 days ago · Peter Buxtun is pictured in San Francisco in this undated photo. Bruxton, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, died on May 18, 2024, from Alzheimer’s disease in Rocklin, Calif. (Liz Hafalia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
