Patterson later became president of Tuskegee Institute, a historically black college, and convinced the military to establish an on-campus airbase for the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of World War II ...

Tuskegee Institute, ... William Howard Taft, who would become U.S. president a few years later, attended the celebration; so did industrialist and donor Andrew Carnegie.

Charlotte P. Morris, president of Tuskegee University, in Alabama, will retire in the spring. John Nader, president of Farmingdale State College, part of the State University of New York, plans to ...

Tuskegee University, founded on July 4, 1881, commemorates its 144th anniversary today. The institution began as the Tuskegee ...

Anthony Leigh, senior vice president for student and institutional development and dean of students at Huntingdon College, in Alabama, has been named president of the college. Jenni Martin has ...

Frissell spent March of 1945 taking photographs of the Tuskegee Airmen and may have been the only professional photographer to document the inner workings of the African-American unit, as stated ...

Tuskegee celebrates its 114th anniversary on July 4, with the HBCU's unique legacy and connection to other Black institutions ...

On July 19, 1941, 12 aviation cadets and one student officer, Captain Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., reported to Tuskegee Institute (Tuskegee University) to start flight training as the first Black pilot ...

Tuskegee was already a place of Black healthcare excellence because of the Tuskegee Institute. The institute's first president Booker T. Washington believed the best way for Black Americans to ...

Upon Tuskegee University President, Dr. Benjamin F. Payton's recommendation, Dr. Bowie received "Dean Emeritus" status from the Tuskegee University Board of Trustees in 1992 in recognition of his ...

Black and White residents of Tuskegee lined the byways and town square, hoping for a glimpse of the president. After being greeted by the mayor, Roosevelt gave a short speech.