Tuskegee Tours

05/29/2024

The Tuskegee University Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Mark Brown ‘86 as the university's 10th president and chief executive officer. Dr. Brown's selection is the first time in Tuskegee's nearly 143-year history that an alum will lead the university. He will begin his tenure on July 1.

Read more at: https://www.tuskegee.edu/news/tuskegee-university-names-dr-mark-brown-distinguished-alum-as-10th-president

04/22/2024

Hello Park, named after one of Richie’s biggest hits, sits right across from the campus of Tuskegee University.

04/05/2024

Enjoyed a wonderful group from Kansas City, Missouri taking a Tuskegee Tour from

10/12/2023

Roberts and Ritchie return to Tuskegee, Alabama, to discuss the community’s rich roots as the singer gets ready to kick off his Vegas residency.

10/11/2023

Tuskegee Exit 38 - What do you feel when you see this sign?

10/10/2023

"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." - Whitney M. Young

09/03/2023

𝐖𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐔𝐏 - it's Game Day! Join us at the game or on ESPN-U at 6 p.m. CT / 7 p.m. ET. Who are you cheering for? 🏈

Fort Valley State University TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY Tuskegee University Athletics

09/03/2023

08/29/2023

50 years and counting, Tuskegee woman still selling newspapers

Louise Nall started selling The Tuskegee News more than a half century ago, and she still does.

08/13/2023

08/08/2023

Tuskegee Vs Alabama State 😂

08/08/2023

“If you can be the best, then why not try to be the best?” – Garrett Morgan

08/08/2023

Tuskegee native’s film directorial debut showing at Capri Theatre in Montgomery

"They Cloned Tyrone" is scheduled to be released globally on Netflix on July 21.

08/01/2023

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." –Nelson Mandela

07/31/2023

07/23/2023

The Jesup Agricultural Wagon was first used by noted Tuskegee Institute scientist and teacher George Washington Carver in 1906. It was a mobile classroom that allowed Carver to teach farmers and sharecroppers how to grow crops, such as sweet potatoes, peanuts, soybeans, and pecans.

You can read more about it in the comments!

06/28/2023

Lionel Richie nominates first-of-its-kind public park for Tuskegee

https://thebamabuzz.com/new-lionel-richie-nominates-first-of-its-kind-public-park-for-tuskegee/?fbclid=IwAR2oX4dXYzz2eLWiRJ9K57pMnyFqYv8NZFiD635OC5el5_pPZUNkwB3mHY4

🌳 Hello? Is it a new park you're looking for? Lionel Richie nominated a new space to become a public park in his hometown of Tuskegee.

06/19/2023

Happy Juneteenth Independence Day

06/13/2023

The Tuskegee History Center Established in 1997 as the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center, later named the Tuskegee History Center, our non-profit organization was formed originally and primarily to serve as a permanent memorial to the victims and survivors of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

06/12/2023

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama

05/23/2023

The Rosa Parks Marker in located on Martin Luther King Drive in Tuskegee. Recognizing Rosa Louise McCauley Parks an iconic activist during the mid twentieth century civil rights movement. The marker is placed in an area where is it said near the home in which she was born.

05/22/2023

“If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.” — Magic Johnson

05/16/2023

Tuskegee University Legacy Museum is located on the campus of Tuskegee University in Kenney Hall. The museum's origins stem from Bill Clinton's 1997 apology to the victims of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, formally known as the Official Proclamation by President William Jefferson Clinton against the misdeeds of the United States Public Health Service in its Untreated Syphilis Study in the Negro Male in Macon County, Alabama, 1932-1972. Clinton's apology first led to the creation of the University's Bioethics Center in 2006, and the museum followed in 2009.

Exhibits Include: The Patient, The Project, The Partnership: The Mass Production and Distribution of HeLa Cells at Tuskegee University. The United States Public Health Service Untreated Syphilis Study in the Negro Male, 1932-1972.

05/15/2023

"We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort." —Jesse Owens

05/09/2023

Butler Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a historic church in Tuskegee, Alabama. Built in 1957, it is apart of the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage and the National Register of Historic Places. The birthplace of Tuskegee Normal School, now Tuskegee University, on July 4, 1881.

05/08/2023

“If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.” —James Baldwin