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Alabama State University is well known as a historically black
university and for the involvement of its faculty and students in
the civil rights movement. Less attention has been paid to the
school's remarkable origins, having begun as the Lincoln Normal
School in Marion, Alabama, founded by nine former slaves. These men
are rightly considered the progenitors of Alabama State University,
as they had the drive and perseverance to face the challenges posed
by a racial and political culture bent on preventing the
establishment of black schools and universities. It is thanks to
the actions of the Marion Nine that Alabama's rural Black Belt
produces a disproportionate number of African American Ph.D.
recipients, a testament to the vision of the Lincoln Normal
School's founders. From Marion to Montgomery is the story of the
Lincoln Normal School's transformation into the legendary Alabama
State University, including the school's move to Montgomery in 1887
and evolution from Normal School to junior college to full-fledged
four-year university. It's a story of visionary leadership, endless
tenacity, and a true belief in the value of education.
Many documentaries, articles, museum exhibits, books, and movies
have now treated the subject of the Tuskegee Airmen, the only black
American military pilots in World War II. Most of these works have
focused on their training and their subsequent accomplishments
during combat. This publication goes further, using captioned
photographs to trace the Airmen through the various stages of
training, deployment, and combat in North Africa, Italy, and over
occupied Europe. Included for the first time are depictions of the
critical support roles of non-flyers: doctors, nurses, mechanics,
navigators, weathermen, parachute riggers, and others, all of whom
contributed to the Airmen’s success. In words and pictures, this
volume makes vivid the story of the Tuskegee Airmen and the
environments in which they lived, worked, played, fought, and
sometimes died.
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