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Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Ala., on Monday November 11, 2024. One person was killed during a mass shooting that happened on the campus early Sunday November 10, during homecoming weekend.
Tuskegee University is located about 39 miles east of Montgomery. The victim was identified as a “non-university individual,” the university told The Post. alyssa70953495/X
Twelve people, including Tuskegee University students, were wounded in the shooting and were hospitalized at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika and Baptist South Hospital in Montgomery.
The university canceled classes on Monday, November 11, and announced grief counselors would be available to students. [3] The campus was closed after the shooting, with students and faculty having to wear their ID's while on campus. The university also fired the campus security chief and a new security chief will conduct a review of the ...
History class at Tuskegee, 1902. The school was founded on July 4, 1881, as the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers. This was a result of an agreement made during the 1880 elections in Macon County between a former Confederate Colonel, W.F. Foster, who was a candidate for re-election to the Alabama Senate, and a local black Leader, Lewis Adams. [9]
Known as "Alabama Lutheran Academy and Junior College" until 1981; It was the only historically black college among the ten colleges and universities in the Concordia University System. The college ceased operations at the completion of the Spring 2018 semester, citing years of financial distress and declining enrollment. Daniel Payne College
Large crowds were gathered at the university on Saturday night to celebrate Tuskegee’s 100th homecoming week. Social media video shows people ducking for cover at a parking lot as gunshots rang out.
The John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital was originally established in 1892 as the Tuskegee Institute Hospital and Nurse Training School. Its original purpose was to train nursing students and provide care for faculty members at the Tuskegee Institute. When it was founded, it was the first black hospital in Alabama. [2]