The Tuskegee Airmen Research Project and Seminar
byÝ John Adelmann

Overview

In August of 1997, students at Central Alternative High School in Dubuque, Iowa, had never even heard of the Tuskegee Airmen.Ý Six months later, they had published a book on the Airmen, organized a public seminar, and raised funds for an aircraft restoration to honor these famous Americans

What follows is an account of how an academically oriented service project accomplished far more than all but a few ever would have thought possible.

What follows is a chronicle of how a class of at-risk high school students and a group of aging veterans of World War II came together in the spring of 1998 to celebrate their accomplishments and made some history of their own.

What follows is a true story of how an audacious dream became an unprecedented and thrilling reality.