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Tuskegee University
Tuskegee University at Tuskegee, Ala.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1881 by Booker T. Washington as Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. It became Tuskegee Institute in 1937 and adopted its present name in 1985. One of the first important schools to provide adequate education for African Americans, it has since its beginning stressed the practical application of learning. George Washington Carver taught and conducted his famous experiments there. The Carver Foundation and Tuskegee's Agricultural Research and Experiment Station continue to do research in the natural sciences. There are schools of arts and sciences, agriculture and home economics, business, education, engineering and architecture, nursing and allied health professions, and veterinary medicine. The library contains the Washington Collection and Archives, one of the country's most comprehensive collections on Africa and African-American history.
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Tuskegee's time: 125th anniversary puts spotlight on the university's renewed vision.(Cover story)
Magazine article from: Diverse Issues in Higher Education; 12/28/2006; ; 700+ words
; TUSKEGEE, Ala. From its earliest years, Tuskegee University, known initially as Tuskegee Institute, navigated the higher education landscape with considerable skill. Shifting after its 1881 founding from a state-controlled teachers' institute...
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TUSKEGEE AIRMEN OBSERVE 65TH ANNIVERSARY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/19/2006; 700+ words
; ...pilots and aircrews, veterans of the Tuskegee Airmen say they're proud of the barriers...of War, established the revolutionary Tuskegee Airmen program on July 19, 1941, when...members began training at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute and nearby Tuskegee Army Airfield...
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Tuskegee syphilis project produced legacy of suspicion that still causes fear when blacks make health decisions. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 8/20/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...lurked in his mind for 15 or 20 years. Tuskegee. In one word, all the proof in the...Often they are life and death decisions. Tuskegee was the rural Alabama town where the...When you know about what happened in Tuskegee, you don't forget,'' says Mason...
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Tuskegee Airmen museum visitors glimpse history
Magazine article from: The Officer; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...you enter the National Museum of the Tuskegee Airmen in Detroit, Mich., you are...airmen to train and fight in combat. The Tuskegee Airmen museum is a shrine of memorabilia...museum was conceived at the first annual Tuskegee Airmen Reunion in 1972 in Detroit. Eventually...
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Tuskegee airmen site dedication draws more than 1,500. (Noteworthy News).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Black Issues in Higher Education; 9/12/2002; 700+ words
; TUSKEGEE, ALA. History is at home in Tuskegee, where Tuskegee Institute's endeavor to build an airfield led to mined African Americans who dared to become combat airmen in World War II. History was made again last month on the grounds of Moton...
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Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Magazine article from: Nursing History Review; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Edited by Susan M. Reverby (Chapel Hill...2000) (637 pages; $69.95 cloth; $27.50 paper). Tuskegee 's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study is an excellent...
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Tuskegee University receives award from 3M Foundation.
PR Newswire; 6/8/1990; 700+ words
; TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY RECEIVES AWARD FROM 3M FOUNDATION TUSKEGEE, Ala., June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The 3M Foundation of Minneapolis today awarded Tuskegee University $600,000, an investment that will be matched...
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Tuskegee University joins research partnership at National Space Science and Technology Center.
M2 Presswire; 6/7/2002; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-7 June 2002-NASA: Tuskegee University joins research partnership at National Space...1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06062002 Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Ala., one of the nation's top, predominantly...
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TUSKEGEE AIRMEN KEEP THEIR LEGACY FLYING HIGH TWO MEMBERS LOOK BACK DURING NORFOLK COLLEGIATE'S ``CONVERSATIONS'' PROGRAM.(NORFOLK COMPASS)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 3/8/2001; 700+ words
; ...Conversations'' culminates with a talk by two Tuskegee Airmen, local examples of people who...tried to hold a whole race down.'' Tuskegee Airmen Francis L. Horne Sr. and Grant...in Hampton and are the only men in the Tuskegee Airmen Tidewater Chapter considered original...
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Tuskegee University Experiment Aboard NASA Space Shuttle.
PR Newswire; 7/19/1999; 700+ words
; TUSKEGEE, Ala., July 19 /PRNewswire/ -- When NASA...the five-day mission will also carry a Tuskegee University experiment testing sweet potato plant response to microgravity. Tuskegee University's Center for Food and Environmental...
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Tuskegee University
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY. In 1880 Lewis Adams, a mechanic and former slave, and George W. Campbell, a banker and former slave owner, both of Tuskegee, Alabama, saw the need for the education of black youth in Macon...
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Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Tuskegee Syphilis Study From 1932 to 1972, the...This trial has come to be known as the Tuskegee syphilis study. Six hundred black men...United States, three features of the Tuskegee syphilis study are instructive: its racism...
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Tuskegee Experiment
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Tuskegee Experiment. The notorious Tuskegee experiment emerged from a pioneering health program to provide...sufferers from the disease. In 1932, the USPHS returned to Tuskegee, Alabama, the site of one of the earlier syphilis‐...
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Tuskegee
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tuskegee , city (1990 pop. 12,257), seat of Macon co., SE Ala...antebellum houses remain, and nearby is a national forest. Tuskegee is best known as the seat of Tuskegee Univ. During World War II, Tuskegee was the original base...
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Book article from: American Decades
THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDY Shocking Revelations Perhaps...the tale of the medical experiments in Tuskegee, Alabama. For forty years the U.S...experimentation. The Survivors For the men in the Tuskegee study, the changes were all too late...
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