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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.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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. Larry Elder

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. Lionel Richie

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. Allen West (politician)

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. John W. Rogers, Jr.

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. Rebecca Skloot

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. Source: Internet

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