Memorial Foundation Assists California African American Museum

The Women’s Memorial Foundation is honored to be a part, however small, of the California African American Museum’s newest exhibition “Tuskegee: Journey to Flight.” The exhibit, which honors the extraordinary men and women who became a part of the Tuskegee Army Air Corps experience during World War II, opened at the Los Angeles museum on June 18 and continues through Nov. 29.

Among artifacts such as photographs, insignias, uniforms, letters, model planes, and oral histories, visitors will find two World War II parachute rigger’s kits on loan from the Women’s Memorial Collection. The Black women parachute riggers at the Tuskegee Army Airfield used kits like these. We at the Foundation are proud to help tell the story of women’s service in this way.

Learn more about World War II women parachute riggers at our Web site or visit the California African American Museum to learn more about the exhibition, which is free and open to the public.

 

 

 

(July 2009)