Cinema Noir Series: The Tuskegee Airmen HBO Drama
November 10, 2009
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