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2 unusual facts about Tuskegee


Charles E. Anderson

Upon finishing, he was stationed in Tuskegee, Alabama where he was assigned as a weather officer for the 332nd Fighter Group now known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

John Fox Slater

The fund has been of great value in aiding industrial schools in the South, its largest beneficiaries being the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute of Hampton, Virginia, the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute of Tuskegee, Alabama, Spelman Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia, Claflin University in Orangeburg, SC, and Fisk University, in Nashville, Tennessee.


Benjamin Davis, Jr.

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. (1912–2002), American general, commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen

Civilian Pilot Training Program

The inclusion of Tuskegee Institute in the ranks of CPTP participants, along with Hampton Institute, Virginia State University, and Howard University, helped open the doors for the first African-American military pilots.

Coed Affiliates Pershing Rifles

Tuskegee University (Tuskegee Inst, AL) CAPER Company P-4 / Pershing Angels Company P-4-5

Evelyn Lawler

When her school competed at a meet at Tuskegee, the coach Major Cleveland L. Abbott invited her to come to the University.

Henry Wise

Henry Wise, Jr. (1920–2003), American physician and World War II Tuskegee Airman fighter pilot

Icehouse Bottom

The Overhill village of Tuskegee, which is best known as the birthplace of the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah, was located almost immediately northwest of the Icehouse Bottom site.

James Robinson Johnston

In 1908, Johnston suggested creating a preparatory agricultural and industrial school, along the lines of the Tuskegee School in the USA for young blacks.

Jewel Lafontant

Jewel Lafontant married John W. Rogers, Sr., a former member of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, on December 7, 1946; they had one child, investment executive John W. Rogers, Jr. (born 1958).

Johnny Ford

Johnny L. Ford (born August 23, 1942, in Midway, Alabama) is an American politician and mayor of Tuskegee, Alabama, and a former Alabama State Representative.

LeRoy Smith

After his success at Tuskegee, Smith was the 16th head coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for twelve seasons, from 1970 until 1981.

Nathaniel Chisholm

Nathaniel Chisholm (born July 22, 1963, Tuskegee, Alabama) is an American engineer known for fundamental research into nano materials and structural nanocomposites.

Negro Colleges in War Time

A brief overview of the war related work at several different black colleges follows, starting with Tuskegee where the famous George Washington Carver was putting his brain to work for the war effort.

Tuskegee Experiments

Its title refers to the Tuskegee syphilis experiment — the notorious medical experiment conducted around Tuskegee, Alabama, lasting from 1932 to 1972, in which 400 subjects, mainly poor, black sharecroppers, were used in an investigation of the effects of syphilis without their knowledge or consent.

WBIL

WACQ, a radio station (580 AM) licensed to serve Tuskegee, Alabama, United States, which held the call sign WBIL until 2012


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