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| Tuskegee Airmen William Broadwater and J. Byron Morris |
The highlight of last week was attending a Black History Month program across the street at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Tuskegee Airman William Broadwater (above) spoke about his goal of being a pilot from the age of ten, his experiences in the military, his love of flying, and his post-war career as a high ranking official in the FAA. At eighty-six years old, Broadwater is one of the youngest Tuskegee Airmen and a member of one of the last classes to be trained during World War II. He showed us a 70+ year old Air Force examination prep book that he had purchased for $1.50, a lot of money for a teenager in the early 1940s. Broadwater read the book voraciously, even before he knew about the Tuskegee Airmen, and later passed the Air Force exam with flying colors.He was a very inspiring speaker, vividly describing the early days of black aviation in Philadelphia
I spent much of the rest of the week continuing my research and writing of case studies for the Liberian emigrants from
A couple of weeks ago, I spoke about the fellowship to a reporter from The Wave, a community newspaper in Los Angeles
