Tuskegee University facts for kids
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| Motto | Scientia Principatus Opera |
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Motto in English
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Knowledge, Leadership, Service |
| Type | Private historically black land-grant university |
| Established | July 4, 1881 |
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Academic affiliations
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UNCF NAICU ORAU Space-grant |
| Endowment | $126.9 million (2018) |
| President | Charlotte P. Morris |
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Academic staff
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263 Full-time and 45 Part-time (Spring 2022) |
| Students | 2,877 (Fall 2019) |
| Undergraduates | 2,395 (Fall 2019) |
| Postgraduates | 482 (Fall 2019) |
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32°25′48.76″N 85°42′27.81″W / 32.4302111°N 85.7077250°W |
| Campus | Rural, 5,200 acres (2,100 ha) |
| Colors | Crimson and gold |
| Nickname | Golden Tigers |
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Sporting affiliations
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NCAA Division II – SIAC |
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Tuskegee University is a private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama. The campus is designated as the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site by the National Park Service. The university was home to scientist George Washington Carver and to World War II's Tuskegee Airmen.
Tuskegee University offers 43 bachelor's degree programs, including a five-year accredited professional degree program in architecture, 17 master's degree programs, and 5 doctoral degree programs, including the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. The university is home to nearly 3,000 students from around the U.S. and over 30 countries.
The university's campus was designed by architect Robert Robinson Taylor, the first African American to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in conjunction with David Williston, the first professionally trained African-American landscape architect.
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Notable alumni
| Name | Class year | Notability | |
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| Chalmers Archer | 1972 | author of "Growing Up Black in Mississippi" and "Green Berets in the Vanguard" | |
| Claude Albert Barnett | 1906 | Founder of the Associated Negro Press | |
| Robert Beck | 1970s writer known as Iceberg Slim | ||
| Bradford Bennett | Negro League outfielder/second baseman | ||
| Amelia Boynton Robinson | 1927 | international civil and human rights activist, the first woman from Alabama to run for United States Congress in 1964 (affectionately known as "Queen Mother Amelia"), best known for her role in the "Bloody Sunday" event in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965 | |
| William A. Campbell | 1937 | a member of the Tuskegee Airmen who rose to the rank of Colonel | |
| Charles William Carpenter | 1909 | Baptist minister and civil rights activist | |
| Carl Henry Clerk | 1925 | Gold Coast educator, administrator, journalist, editor, Presbyterian minister and fourth Synod Clerk, Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast | |
| Alice Marie Coachman | 1942 | athlete who specialized in high jump, and was the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal | |
| The Commodores | 70s R&B band whose members met while attending Tuskegee | ||
| George Williamson Crawford | lawyer and city official in New Haven, Connecticut | ||
| Leon Crenshaw | former NFL player | ||
| General Oliver W. Dillard | retired Army major general, Silver Star recipient in Korea – 1950 | ||
| Milton C. Davis | 1971 | lawyer who researched and advocated for the pardon of Clarence Norris, the last surviving Scottsboro Boy | |
| Cecile Hoover Edwards | B.A. 1946, M.A. 1947 | Nutritional researcher and government consultant | |
| Ralph Ellison | scholar, author of Invisible Man | ||
| Chauncey Eskridge | 1939 | lawyer for Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali | |
| Vera King Farris | 1959 | President of Richard Stockton College of New Jersey from 1983–2003 | |
| Isaac Fisher | educator, taught at Hampton University and Fisk University | ||
| Drayton Florence | NFL defensive back | ||
| Lovett Fort-Whiteman | political activist and Comintern functionary | ||
| Manet Harrison Fowler | 1913 | singer, founder of Mwalimu School in Harlem, president of Texas Association of Negro Musicians | |
| Alexander N. Green | U.S. Representative from Texas's 9th congressional district | ||
| Winston C. Hackett | First African-American physician in Arizona | ||
| Ken Howell | 1982 | former Major League Baseball pitcher | |
| Charlotte Moton Hubbard | 1931 | first black woman to serve as a deputy assistant secretary of state in the U.S. | |
| Marvalene Hughes | president of Dillard University | ||
| General Daniel "Chappie" James | 1942 | US Air Force Fighter pilot, in 1975 became the first African American to reach the rank of four-star General | |
| Lonnie Johnson (inventor) | inventor of the Super Soaker, former NASA aerospace engineer | ||
| Ken Jordan | former NFL player | ||
| Tom Joyner | 1971 | radio host whose daily program, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, is syndicated across the United States and heard by over 10 million radio listeners. | |
| John A. Lankford | 20th century architect | ||
| Marion Mann | 1940 | former dean of the College of Medicine at Howard University and US Army Brigadier General (retired) | |
| Claude McKay | 1912 | Jamaican writer and poet, Harlem Renaissance | |
| Marilyn Mosby | 2002 | State's Attorney in Baltimore, MD | |
| Albert Murray | 1939 | literary and jazz critic, novelist, and biographer | |
| Ray Nagin | 1978 | former mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana | |
| Dimitri Patterson | NFL player | ||
| Dr. Ptolemy A. Reid | 1955 | Prime Minister of Guyana (1980–1984) | |
| Rich Boy | Rapper | ||
| Lionel Richie | R&B singer, Grammy Award winner | ||
| Lawrence E. Roberts | a member of the Tuskegee Airmen and a colonel in The United States Air Force | ||
| John Robinson (aviator) | early aviator and colonel in the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force against Fascist Italy during WWII | ||
| Tammarrian Rogers | Forbes' World's Top 50 Women In Tech | ||
| George C. Royal | 1943 | microbiologist who is currently professor emeritus at Howard University | |
| Roderick Royal | president of the Birmingham City Council | ||
| Jessica A. Scoffield | 2002 | microbiologist and professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham | |
| Betty Shabazz | wife of Malcolm X | ||
| Jake Simmons Jr. | 1919 | oil broker and civil rights advocate | |
| Roscoe Simmons | 1899 | columnist for the Chicago Tribune | |
| Danielle Spencer | television actress best known as Dee from the 1970s TV show What's Happening!! | ||
| McCants Stewart | 1896 | lawyer, first African American to practice law in Oregon | |
| Frank Walker | NFL defensive back | ||
| Keenen Ivory Wayans | actor, comedian, and television producer | ||
| Alfreda Johnson Webb | 1943 | First African-American woman in the North Carolina General Assembly (1972) | |
| Jack Whitten | abstract painter | ||
| Dr. David Wilson | president of Morgan State University | ||
| Roosevelt Williams (gridiron football) | 2000 | former NFL player for the Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, New York Jets | |
| Ken Woodard | former NFL player | ||
| Edward Woolridge | Negro League infielder | ||
| Elizabeth Evelyn Wright | educator and humanitarian, founder of Voorhees College |
Images for kids
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History class at Tuskegee, 1902
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Original campus buildings on the Miller plantation, 1882
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Booker T. Washington
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George Washington Carver (front row, center) poses with fellow faculty of Tuskegee Institute in this c. 1902 photograph taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston.
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Tuskegee Institute, c. 1916
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Tuskegee University Chapel (1969)
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The Tuskegee University Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center
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A view of the Tuskegee University campus – White Hall bell tower
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College of Veterinary Medicine – Fredrick D Patterson Hall
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College of Engineering – Luther H. Foster Hall has long been home to one of the nation's best engineering programs containing: Aerospace Science Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science Engineering, Mechanical and Military Science
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Tuskegee University School of Nursing – Basil O'Connor Hall. Tuskegee Institute Training School of Nurses was registered with the State Board of Nursing in Alabama in September 1892 under the auspices of Tuskegee University's John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital. In 1948, the School began its baccalaureate program leading to the Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing. This program has the distinction of being the first Baccalaureate Nursing program in the State of Alabama.
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Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science is home to one of only 2 NAAB-accredited, architecture professional degree programs in the state of Alabama. It is also home to one of the top Construction Science and Management degree programs in the nation.
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Tuskegee University's historic Cleveland Leigh Abbott Memorial Alumni Stadium, completed 1924. The stadium was the first of its kind to be built at any HBCU in the south.
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See also
In Spanish: Universidad de Tuskegee para niños
