Tuskegee Airmen Trainees : Freeman Field Mutiny collection, 1944-1996.

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Tuskegee Airmen Trainees : Freeman Field Mutiny collection, 1944-1996.

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The Tuskegee Airmen Trainees, Freeman Field Mutiny collection consists of documents relating to a case of racial discrimination that resulted in the arrest of over a hundred African American officers and their subsequent exoneration. Included are copies of Army Air Force Special Orders, restricting and arresting the airmen, their reassignment and transfer orders. Of interest is the testimony of Col. Robert R. Selway, commanding officer at Freeman Field who issued the discriminatory orders and had the officers arrested. Selway also signed the administrative reprimand of Flight Officer Frank Pivalo (1922-1995), one of the Tuskegee Airmen who figures prominently in this collection. There is also a roster of the 115th A.A.F. Base Units.

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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