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

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Purnell, Louis R Trip, Robert National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution Exhibitions

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Chronology of Smithsonian HistoryFor more information, see Louis Purnell Oral History Interviews, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9578Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9578, Purnell, Louis R. interviewee, Louis R. Purnell Interviewsthe 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.Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

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