1 Tuskegee, Alabama
A 45-minute drive east of
Montgomery, this city is best known for the Tuskegee Airmen – a group of predominantly Black military aviators who trained at the former Tuskegee Army Air Field. However, it’s got an intricate literary heritage too.
In 1881, author and orator Booker T Washington founded the). The historically Black university was attended by both Ralph Waldo Ellison, author of acclaimed 1952 novel , and Albert Murray, a critic and novelist whose work centred on issues of race.
