Learn Tuskegee Airmen’s History & Impact at the Ocean County Library Brick Branch

BRICK TOWNSHIP – A group of primarily African American aviators in World War II fortified U.S. military might and simultaneously propelled our nation toward racial and social parity. In honor of Black History Month, join historian Paul E. Zigo for “The Tuskegee Airmen: America’s First Black Pilots” at the Ocean County Library Brick Branch, 2 PM Wednesday, February 5.

In this presentation, you’ll gain an understanding of the circumstances surrounding the formation of this celebrated unit, the group’s wartime accomplishments, and its long-term effect on American society. Preparing for battle on airfields near Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute, the Airmen represented the U.S. military’s first de-segregated training.

Paul E. Zigo (Colonel, USA, Ret.) is founder of New Jersey’s World War II Era Studies Institute. He authored Unconditional Surrender: Witnessing History – May 1945 and co-wrote When Men Have To Die: Harry J. Whittinghill’s Memoir of the Bataan Death March, both available for borrowing at the Ocean County Library.
 
His presentation is one of more than 20 programs of military, political and social history primarily from World War II through the Vietnam conflict that the Institute offers.

Please register at https://tinyurl.com/OclBAirmen to attend this free program, sponsored by the Brick Friends of the Library.

The Friends are volunteers who support the Library through programs, fundraising and advocacy. New members are always welcome. Application forms are available at all OCL branches and reading centers and on the Library’s website. The Brick Friends’ next general membership meeting will take place at 10 AM Wednesday, February 5.

For more information, stop by the OCL Brick Branch, 301 Chambers Bridge Road, or call (732) 477-4513. See the full schedule of Library programs in the online Calendar of Events. 

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