Pioneering Tuskegee Airman helps history come alive at Cordova High
Cordova High School students came face-to-face with history in the school’s Performing Arts Theater earlier this month when one of the original Tuskegee Airmen visited campus for a lesson on the nation’s first all-African American military airmen.
Boyd Taylor, 97, was a Tech Sargent Crew Chief of the original Tuskegee Airmen – the Army Air Corps program to train African Americans to fly and maintain combat aircraft during World War II. Prior to that, African Americans had been denied military leadership roles and were barred from flying for the military.
Taylor was joined at Cordova High by his wife; Betty Davis, the daughter of another member of the original Airmen; and Lanelle Brent, daughter of Col. George S. “Spanky” Roberts, after whom the Sacramento Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. is named.
Click here to see more photos from the historic visit to Cordova High!