Welcome To the Official Site of the Tuskegee Student Betterment Council
Welcome to Historic Tuskegee, Alabama
The Tuskegee Student Betterment Council is working to show that the historic city of Tuskegee is still alive and well. This website shows you just some of the GREAT things the City of Tuskegee can offer you. So we hope you enjoy our webpage and join us here in Tuskegee for a fun and entertaining adventure through some of Americas most unforgettable history!
Tuskegee History
Tuskegee is also famous for being the “cradle of black aviation”, thanks to the Tuskegee Airmen. This was the only African American air squadron that served during WWII.
Tuskegee is the home of historic Tuskegee University founded by Dr. Booker T. Washington as the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute on July 4th 1881. Tuskegee Institute is where the famed educator Dr. George Washington Carver found over 1000 uses for the peanut and other southern crops.
Tuskegee was also the site of the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment; this was when over 300 African American men from Macon County, that had syphilis were denied treatment for their disease.
The Tuskegee Veterans Administrative Hospital was the only veteran’s hospital for African American World War I veterans. Blacks that could not receive medical training from other medical facilities came to the Tuskegee VA Hospital for training. The VA is now called the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System, East Campus after a merger of central Alabama veterans care facilities.
Tuskegee played a major part in the civil rights movement. Tuskegee was one of the first cities to fight for the voting rights of African American people with the legendary court case of Gomillion vs. Lightfoot. Tuskegee students were not silent when it came to civil rights. Many students took part in the Selma to Montgomery March of 1965 that lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Students at Tuskegee and Alabama State participated in the march with the preparation and distribution of food to marchers.
Also Tuskegee was the home of Sammy Young Jr. the first student killed in the civil rights movement.
Tuskegee was the home of William Levi Dawson, Lionel Richie, Tom Joyner, Robert R. Moton, and Rosa Parks “the mother of the civil rights movement”.
The Tuskegee Airmen
This picture is of the first black military pilots trained at Tuskegee's Moton and Tuskegee Army Air Fields forming the core of what came to be called the Tuskegee Experience. The Tuskegee Experience included 992 black pilots and over 10,000 support personal such as navigators, mechanics, and others. For mor infomation on the Tuskegee Airmen please contact the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site in Tuskegee, Alabama @ 334-724-0922
Plan Your Visit - List of Attractions
Attractions
Tuskegee University/ Tuskegee Institute Historic District
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site (including the Oaks and GWC Museum)
Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site @ Historic Moton Field
City of Tuskegee Historic District
The Tuskegee Human & Civil Rights Multi- Cultural Center
Kirk’s Old Farm Museum
Butler Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church
Tuskegee Veterans Administration Medical Center
Tuskegee National Forest
The Tuskegee Repertoire Theatre/Jessie Clinton Art Center
Tuskegee City Lake
Accommodations
The Kellogg Executive Conference Center @ Tuskegee University
White Oak Plantation Bed and Breakfast/Hunting Resort
Events
The George Washington Carver Arts & Crafts Festival (Downtown Tuskegee)
The Carver Sweet Potato Festival (Downtown Tuskegee)
The Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Day Fly-in (Historic Moton Field)
July Forth Founders Day Celebration (Around Lake Tuskegee)
Dinning
Taliaferro's - All You Can Eat Buffet and Steak House
The Restaurant @ the Kellogg Conference Center
~And a wide assortment of Fast Food Restaurants and country style cafes.
"Community Motto"
"Tuskegee The Pride Of the Swift Growing South"
