Tuskegee
Speech parts
1. Tuskegee - Noun
2. Tuskegee - Proper noun
Meaning
A Creek settlement that the modern city of Tuskegee, Alabama is located on.
A city, the county seat of Macon County, in southwestern Alabama, United States.
A former town of the Overhill Cherokee people, located along the Little Tennessee River in what is now Monroe County, Tennessee, United States.
The notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment, a landmark event in medical research ethics and law.
Tuskegee National Forest.
Tuskegee University.
An unethical experiment on humans.
(rare, historical) One of the Tuskegee Airmen.
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Examples
My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.
Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.
The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father was first born in Ozark, Alabama. The sacrifices and the commitment of those men made it possible for myself and many others.
My father was a Tuskegee Airmen captain in the Air Force and a very strong personality. He believed in fairness and ethics and living up to the commitments you make to others. He ultimately became a judge, and he would talk to me over and over about how important it is to be fair.
Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus-and at the very same time-that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.
After graduating from Charlotte Amalie High School in 1987, he attended Tuskegee University in Alabama where he earned a bachelor’s degree in hospitality management.