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Eleanor Roosevelt and Charles Anderson
Eleanor Roosevelt and Charles Anderson
In March 1941, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited
Tuskegee
,
Macon County
, and went for a plane ride with
Tuskegee Airmen
pilot instructor
Charles A. "Chief" Anderson
, bringing national media attention to Tuskegee's African American pilot training program. The event was captured by renowned
Tuskegee Institute
photographer
Prentice "P.H." Polk
. The airmen on the left is unidentified.
Courtesy of the Tuskegee University Archives, P.H. Polk Family Collection