"Black Wings" Exhibit Opens at National Air and Space Museum 09/1982

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Summary

the National Air and Space Museum opens “Black Wings”, the now permanent exhibit on the Tuskegee Airmen. The journey began in 1977 when Robert Trip, an African American school teacher from Virginia, noticed there was no African American representation at NASM. He began a campaign to change this, and in 1982 got in contact with Louis Purnell, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum and California Representative Ronald V. Dellums who were instrumental in the opening of the exhibit.

Subject

  • Purnell, Louis R
  • Dellums, Ronald V. 1935-
  • Trip, Robert
  • National Air and Space Museum
  • United States Army Air Forces
  • Smithsonian Institution Exhibitions
  • Black Wings: The American Black in Aviation (Exhibition) (1982-2016: National Air and Space Museum)

Notes

  • For more information, see Louis Purnell Oral History Interviews, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9578
  • Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9578, Purnell, Louis R. interviewee, Louis R. Purnell Interviews

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, [email protected]

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Date

  • September 1982
  • 1982

Topic

  • Curators
  • Exhibit openings
  • Exhibitions
  • Regents
  • African Americans

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