Homewood

Historical marker location:

Homewood, Alabama

( Marker is on 19th Street South, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2003

The city of Tuskegee, Alabama is the birthplace of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military pilots. During World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen were trained at the Tuskegee Institute and went on to fly over 1,500 missions in the war.