McCormick Foundation to fund black history project
20 November 2011
CHICAGO — The McCormick Foundation is financing an oral history project that highlights the service of black soldiers.
The foundation made a $200,000 grant to the MilitaryMakers project, part of a digital archive that features interviews with Gen. Colin Powell and several Tuskegee Airmen, black pilots who served during World War II.
Organizers of the project say blacks have made up at least 10 percent to 15 percent of the U.S. armed forces since the Revolutionary War, but that the black history of the military often goes untold.
The archive will be made available online and will be used in presentations at military museums.
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