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The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of primarily African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II. They were the first African American military aviators in the U.S. armed forces.
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February is Black History Month.
Trained on five airfields surrounding Tuskegee University in Alabama, their training was the first desegregated training to take place within a segregated U.S. military. It became the first dramatic move forward to racial and social equality within America.
This presentation will cover the history of the formation of the Tuskegee Airmen, the unit’s wartime accomplishments and the unit’s overall effect on American society.
Presented by: Paul E. Zigo, a history professor, author and military historian is the founder and director, of the World War II Era Studies Institute. The institute is dedicated to furthering one’s knowledge and understanding of the WW II era and its impact on history. He is a graduate of Temple University and the United States Army War College. He authored and edited in 2009, "Witnessing History: The Eisenhower Photographs" featuring all the photos of General Dwight D. Eisenhower taken by his personal wartime photographer, Al Meserlin. Zigo was also the executive producer and narrator of the cable network series "Triumphant Spirit: America’s World War II Generation Speaks" from 2001 to 2004. In 2014, he authored the book "The Longest Walk: The Amazing Story of the 29th Inf. Division on D-Day 6 June 1944" and in 2017, he co-authored the book "Bataan – When Men Have To Die", an accounting of the fall of the Philippine Islands to the Japanese in 1942. Recently, Mr. Zigo authored and published the book "Unconditional Surrender: Witnessing History – May 1945". He is a 30-year veteran of the United States Army retiring as a Colonel and is a founding sponsor of the National Museum of the US Army.
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AGE GROUP: | Adult |
EVENT TYPE: | Virtual | Lecture | History |
TAGS: | Black History Month | #BlackHistoryMonth |
