Pitt-sponsored Fly Boys Has World Premiere Screening Feb. 1 »
The world premiere screening of the WQED-produced video documentary Fly Boys: Western Pennsylvania’s Tuskegee Airmen—which was made possible through major funding from the University of Pittsburgh with additional support from the Alcoa Foundation and the Pittsburgh Foundation—will be Pitt’s inaugural event in the K. Leroy Irvis Black History Month Program.
The by-invitation event, cohosted by Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg and WQED Multimedia President and CEO and Pitt Trustee George L. Miles Jr., will be held on Feb. 1 in the Soldiers and Sailors Military Museum and Memorial in Oakland.
The documentary takes viewers back to early 1941, during the Jim Crow “separate but equal” days prior to America’s entry in World War II, when the Roosevelt Administration established an all-Black flight training program at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Alabama.