Tuskegee Institute, the
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishTuskegee Institute, thethe Tuskegee InstituteTus‧ke‧gee In‧sti‧tute, the /tʌsˈkiːɡi ˌɪnstɪtjuːt $ -tuːt/ one of the first colleges for African Americans in the US. It was started by Booker T. Washington in 1881 in Tuskegee, Alabama.