Tuskegee
Americannoun
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Of Tuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, a president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., who built schools — more than 5,000 nationally, eventually — for systemically disadvantaged Black students.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
They also told the life stories of members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the country's first black military airmen.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2025
But Tuskegee is happening in Macon County, Alabama, thousands of miles away.
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2024
It actually pictured Booker T. Washington, the business leader and founding president of the college that became Tuskegee University.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2024
As far as the Tuskegee airmen were concerned, it was the best plane in the world.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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