PRESS RELEASE- For Release 2/6/2025
Media Contact: Natalie Oslund
natalie.oslund@archives.alabama.gov
(334) 353-1881
FOOD FOR THOUGHT LUNCHTIME LECTURE AT THE ARCHIVES
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 AT 12:00PM
MEMORIES OF A TUSKEGEE AIRMEN NURSE
PRESENTED BY PIA MARIE WINTERS JORDAN
Montgomery, AL (02/06/2025) – The Alabama Department of Archives & History (ADAH) will continue its 2025 Food for Thought lunchtime lecture series on Thursday, February 20, at 12:00pm CT. Pia Marie Winters Jordan will present Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse. The program will be held in the ADAH’s Joseph M. Farley Alabama Power Auditorium in Montgomery. It will also be livestreamed on the ADAH’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. Admission is FREE.
Jordan’s book, Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and Her Military Sisters, focuses on the period from 1942 to 1946 when up to twenty-eight African American women from the Army Nurse Corps staffed the station hospital at the base where future Tuskegee Airmen trained. These women, graduates of schools across the U.S., were registered nurses and commissioned lieutenants in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Their contributions, often overlooked, are a significant part of the broader narrative of African American women’s service during World War II.
Pia Marie Winters Jordan is the project director of the Tuskegee Army Nurses Project and is developing a multimedia documentary on the Army Nurse Corps members who served with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. She retired in 2018 as an associate professor at Morgan State University and now resides in St. Petersburg, Florida.
For additional information, contact Alex Colvin at alex.colvin@archives.alabama.gov or (334) 353-4689. A complete schedule of our 2025 lunchtime lecture series is available at archives.alabama.gov. Food for Thought 2025 is sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Friends of the Alabama Archives.
The Alabama Department of Archives and History is the state’s government-records repository, a special-collections library and research facility, and home to the Museum of Alabama, the state history museum. It is located in downtown Montgomery, directly across Washington Avenue from the State Capitol. The Museum of Alabama is open Monday through Saturday from 8:30 to 4:30. The EBSCO Research Room is open Tuesday through Saturday from 8:30 to 4:30. To learn more, visit www.archives.alabama.gov or call (334) 242-4364.
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