Tuskegee

Tuskegee, is in the River Heritage area, and county seat of Macon County, Alabama. Tuskegee is an important place in African American and American history.

Understand
It has both a positive and a negative role in history. It served as the home of the well-known Tuskegee Institute that was founded by the principled Booker T. Washington, which went on to become the temporary home of such important American figures as George Washington Carver and the Tuskegee Airmen. But it also served as the site of the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study that would put a bad light on the US Public Health Service.

To a lesser scale, Tuskegee is also known for the work towards addressing voter disenfranchisement, as the Supreme Court ruled in 1960 that a gross instance of gerrymandering in this town that essentially excluded all African Americans from the electorate, even well-educated ones from the Tuskegee Institute/University, was unconstitutional.

Get in
Tuskegee lies along the I-85 corridor between Montgomery and Auburn/Opelika. While a little light on some of the common providers of commercial transportation like Amtrak or Greyhound, it has some private taxi/shuttle companies such as:
 * Groome Transportation-Auburn, with services from places like Auburn and Atlanta.

See

 * , with a statue of Booker T. Washington and:

Sleep
Tuskegee kind of has a paucity of accommodations, and it might be best to consider Auburn or somewhere else instead, although there is a vacation rental called Spacious Retreat if quite intent on staying here.