Happy Hour with the Historian: Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse
The St. Petersburg Museum of History and Southern Roots Realty invite you to join us Nov. 9 for Happy Hour with the Historian!
Author Pia Jordan will introduce and discuss her book, Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and Her Military Sisters.
A scrapbook can tell much about a person’s life. Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse shares the World War II stories of when 28 women from the Army Nurse Corps staffed the hospital on the base where the Tuskegee Airmen were undergoing basic training.
These women were African American, registered nurses, and lieutenants in the U.S. Army Air Corps.
Pia’s mother was one of these Army officers, and although her mother did not speak much of that time, her Tuskegee Army Flying School scrapbook tells a much more detailed story.
Like the famed pilots, the nurses had to fight racial discrimination, but also faced gender bias.
A retired professor at the School of Global Journalism at Morgan State University, Pia Jordan is the project director of the Tuskegee Army Nurses Project. She currently lives in St. Petersburg.
Members: $5 | Not-yet-members: $10
Cash bar provided.
Doors open at 6pm. Program begins at 6:30pm.
Seating is limited, reserve your seats today!
NOTE: Seat assignments are not pre-assigned. Please arrive at 6PM if you require a special seating arrangement.
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