Tuskegee's a city in Macon County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 11,846 and's designated a Micropolitan Statistical Area. Located in Macon County, Alabama, Tuskegee has been the site of major African-American achievements for more than 100 years. It's where, in 1881, Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers, which later became Tuskegee Institute and then Tuskegee University, with the mission of educating a newly freed people fo… (More on Tuskegee)