Dr. Lisa Bratton - The Tuskegee Airmen in Their Own Words
Schedule
Sun, 30 Mar, 2025 at 02:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Moon Lake Library, 4607 AL-117, Mentone, AL, United States, Alabama 35984 | Mentone, AL
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Dr. Lisa Bratton, an associate professor of history at Tuskegee University, will be at Moon Lake Library on Sunday, March 30 at 2 PM to discuss the Tuskegee Airmen’s history and their service in World War II as United States Army Air Corps’s first Black aviators. Dr. Bratton served as historian for the National Park Service’s Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project, traveling the country to interview over 250 of the Airmen and their family members. Her presentation will include content from those interviews. Eighty years after World War II, numbers of its surviving veterans continue to dwindle, making it more important than ever that their story is shared with new audiences. This presentation is an opportunity to do just that, ensuring that the sacrifices of Alabama’s Tuskegee Airmen are never forgotten.
Dr. Bratton received her B.B.A. from Howard University, her M.B.A. from Atlanta University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in African American Studies from Temple University. Her primary research interest is Historic Brattonsville, the South Carolina plantation on which her ancestors, Green and Malinda Bratton, were enslaved. Although enslaved for much of their lives, they went on to become the first Freedmen to purchase land in York County.
The program is free and open to the public. There is additional parking available in the designated grassy lot beside the library and in the Moon Lake Village parking lots.
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Where is it happening?
Moon Lake Library, 4607 AL-117, Mentone, AL, United States, Alabama 35984Event Location & Nearby Stays:
