Join us for the very first meeting of our new Lunch and Learn series!
To celebrate Black History Month, Dr. Lisa Bratton will be discussing her presentation "The Tuskegee Airmen—In Their Own Words"!
From 2000 to 2005, Dr. Bratton served as a historian for the National Park Service’s Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project. She traveled the country interviewing over 250 Airmen including pilots, support personnel, instructors, civilians, wives and others. Her talks can be on nearly any aspect of their experience (history, racial incidents, little known facts…) and will include content from the vast collection of a total of 850 interviews.
Dr. Lisa Bratton is an Associate Professor of History at Tuskegee University. She received her B.B.A. from Howard University, her M.B.A. from Atlanta University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in African American Studies from Temple University. Her primary research interest is Historic Brattonsville, the South Carolina plantation on which her ancestors, Green and Malinda Bratton, were enslaved. Although enslaved for much of their lives, they went on to become the first Freedmen to purchase land in York County. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships—most recently the Clemson University Teacher Scholars Fellowship and the HistoryMakers Fellowship in Pedagogy Teaching and Pedagogy. Dr. Bratton is an avid traveler who has visited all 50 states and such interesting places as Pyongyang, North Korea, Cuba, and Swaziland.
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