Tuskegee University is a private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States. It was founded as a normal school for teachers on July 4, 1881, by the Alabama Legislature. In 1932 Tuskegee was involved, in collaboration with the United States Public Health Service, in recruiting participants for an infamous syphilis study.
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Location
Tuskegee, AL, 36088-1920
32.430900, -85.708492
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Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges
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