The Tuskegee Airmen National
Historic Site was dedicated this weekend near Tuskegee, Alabama. The site includes a restored Hangar 2 at Moton
Field that will serve as a museum featuring artifacts and oral histories of the
Tuskegee Airmen. The Skyway Club, where
the airmen relaxed, will include furnishings from the 1940’s.
The Tuskegee Airmen were the
first African American military pilots, serving in World War II. The map above (click to enlarge) shows locations
of the over 1,000 missions flown by the airmen during the war. The map is from the Atlas of African American History by James Client and is available
from the Atlas Collection on the second floor of Bracken Library. The
Atlas of African American History and Politics: from the Slave Trade to Modern
Times by Arwin Smallwood is also available for research and learning.
For more information about these
cartographic resources, please contact the Ball State University Libraries’ GIS
Research and Map Collection at 765-285-1097.
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