The application period for the 2025 fellowship cohort is now CLOSED and those Applications are under review. Details about the 2026 application process will be posted at a later date…
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Lieutenant Ahmed A. “Sammy” Rayner Jr. was born in Chicago in 1918. His father, Ahmed Sr., was a mortician with degrees from Prairie View A&M University, Worsham College of Mortuary Science,…
Hey CDCTAI Team. Our post-event report from this visit is below. 👇 On Saturday May 18, 2024, chapter members Bob Brutvan, Mike Jones, David Watkins (AIM student), Jim Warren and…
From the Archives: The Flight Plan Newsletter, Vol. XI no. 1, January 2004, Chicago DODO Chapter, Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. Submitted by Bobbie M. Anthony-Perez On December 16, 2003, thirty “DODO”…
By Vince Saunders Shelby Foster Westbrook was born in Marked Tree, Arkansas on January 14, 1922, to Livingston and Lillian Westbrook. He was one of seven children – his siblings…
In Loving Memory of Oscar Lawton Wilkerson, Jr. February 9, 1926 – February 8, 2023 Oscar Lawton (Wilk) Wilkerson, Jr. was born on February 9, 1926, in Chicago Heights,…
By Vince Saunders In 1903 W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in “The Souls of Black Folk” that “the problem of the 20th century will be the problem of the color line,” a…
Lt. Col. Warren was one of the 101 arrested at Freeman Field (as was former TAI Chicago president Roy Chappell). He wrote a book, The Tuskegee Airmen Mutiny at Freeman…
Head over to Freeman Municipal Airport in Seymour, IN for a full week of lectures, performances, exhibits and more, October 3-8, 2022. The weeklong activities will culminate in the dedication…
John Charles Robinson (November 26, 1903 – March 27, 1954, was an African American aviator and activist. He earned the name “Brown Condor” during his service to the Ethiopian Air…
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