The Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project and Oral History in the National Park Service
Moye T. 2002. The Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project and Oral History in the National Park Service. The Journal of American History. 89(2):580-587
In 1998 President Bill Clinton signed into law a bill directing the National Park Service (NPS) to create a national historic site at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama. The site will honor the Tuskegee Airmen, as the first African American military aviators- men who trained to fly airplanes at segregated facilities in Tuskegee during World War II- were later called. When Congress appropriated funds for the creation of the site, it authorized the NPS to conduct an oral history of surviving Tuskegee-trained pilots and the thousands of people who supported them during World War II. The resulting Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project is but one of the hundreds of ways that the National Park Service has embraced the possibilities of oral history.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Moye, Todd
- Units
- HIST , TUAI
- Keywords
- African American, Aviation, Aviators, Cultural Resources, ehistory, Ethnography, History, Moton Field, Oral History, Tuskegee, World War II