Tuskegee, Alabama
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Tuskegee is a city in Macon County, Alabama, United States. The population was 9,395 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 8,765 in 2023. It is the most populous city in Macon County.
Macon County Courthouse
The Hangar One Museum at the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site at Moton Field
Lake Tuskegee is a city-owned recreational area with playgrounds, picnic areas, and some 92 acres of water providing fishing, sailing, and water skiing opportunities.
Tuskegee Municipal Complex
Rosa Parks
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregati
Tuskegee, Alabama
…Nella Larsen, nurse, librarian, and novelist; worked at Tuskegee Institute in 1915 Rosa Parks, born in Tuskegee; she became a civil rights activist in the 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama Lionel Richie, rhythm & blues singer, songwriter, musician…
Parks in 1956
The No. 2857 bus on which Parks was riding before her arrest is now a museum exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum.
The seat layout on the bus where Parks sat, December 1, 1955
Police report on Parks, December 1, 1955, page 1