Cinema Noir Series: The Tuskegee Airmen HBO Drama
Ford Life Science Building, Rm.115, 6:40 p.m.
Tentatively Scheduled is a Tuskegee Airmen who will speak prior
to the showing of the film, "The Tuskegee Airmen- Fighting
99th"
- The Fighting 99th was the first squadron of Black American
pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. It is 1943 and the
Germans are winning the Second World War as the U.S. suffers huge
losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots
are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when black
flyers are not welcomed in the Air Force.
For more information please contact Ann Eskridge at
eskridae@udmercy.edu