Reading the Southern Past
Flying with the Tuskegee Airmen
By Stephen Goldfarb
This quarter’s review traces the history of the Tuskegee Aviation Program and the airmen it trained. Drawing on J. Todd Moye’s Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, Charles W. Dryden’s A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman, and Robert Jakeman’s The Divided Skies: Establishing Segregated Flight Training at Tuskegee, Alabama, 1934-1942, Stephen Goldfarb explores the history of this significant chapter of African American and military history.
About the Author
Stephen Goldfarb holds a PhD in the history of science and technology. He retired from a public library in 2003.
Additional Information In the winter of 1993, Alabama Heritage published Jerry A. Davis’s “Black Wings of Tuskegee,” which was a favorite with our subscribers.