Historical Marker
Mountain Brook
Historical marker location:
56 Church Street, Mountain Brook, Alabama
( Marker is on Church Street, on the right when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 1997
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.