Tuskegee Airman To Speak at Framingham State Tuesday

The public is invited to attend a special talk with World War II Veteran Lt. Col. George E. Hardy, who was a member of the famous Tuskegee Airmen,next week on the campus of Framingham State University.

The talk will take place at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the Dwight Hall Performing Arts Center.

In 1925, the Army War College concluded that African Americans could never be pilots because they lacked intelligence and courage.

In 1941, The Tuskegee Institute, an experimental training center, opened to train African American pilots.

Hardy was one of roughly 1,000 Airmen who would later become known as The Tuskegee Airmen.

The group would produce the first U.S. Air Force African American general and four-star general, Benjamin O. Davis and Chappie James.

By demonstrating their competence and bravery as combat aviators, The Tuskegee Airmen paved the Way to end Jim Crow Segregation in all branches of the U.S. military.

The event is sponsored by the University’s Veterans Services Office and the Office of the Dean of Students.