Title:
Tuskegee Airman Lee Hayes
Speaker:
Lee Hayes
Subject:
aviation
Area:
Aviation
Type of school:
laboratory
School name:
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Country:
United States
Course language:
English
Course media:
Video
Course duration:
Contributor:
pbp
Comments:
Tuskegee Airman Lee Hayes (1 hr.)
Hayes, a resident of Amagansett who worked at Brookhaven Lab as a custodian from 1958 to 1966, served in an all-black bomber squadron at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama. He was among 994 precedent-breaking black soldiers at Tuskegee who passed rigorous tests between 1942 and 1946 to become pilots in the then-segregated armed forces.
August 3, 2006.