NOW BOOKING: Mr. Milton Pitts Crenshaw (Original Tuskegee Airman)

Jan. 22, 2012 - PRLog -- January  20, 2012:  Mr. Milton P. Crenchaw is now accepting offers for speaking engagements, meet and greets, and guest appearances. For more information please contact Rich Torrence with Channel One Enterprise to book your event. Milton Pitts Crenshaw has received numerous awards and certificates for his role as a Tuskegee Airmen.

Milton Pitts Crenchaw (born January 13, 1919 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is the God-Father of black aviation. Milton Pitts Crenchaw, of the Original Tuskegee Airmen, was one of the first African Americans in the country and the first from Arkansas to be trained by the federal government as a civilian licensed pilot. He trained hundreds of cadet pilots while at Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute in the 1940s. He overcame racism and bigotry to serve our country during World War II as a civilian flight Instructor, a time when Jim Crow Laws were still in effect.

Crenshaw was named Primary Flight Instructor in 1942 at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Tuskegee, Alabama. He was one of the two original supervising squadron members under Chief Pilot Charles A. Anderson. Anderson was the first African-American man to have a private pilot license in 1929. Mr. Crenchaw taught many pilots and cadets known as the Tuskegee Airmen. Some of the notables were William T. Mattison, Charles Debow, Daniel “Chappie” James, Lieutenant Colonel Charles “Chuck” Dryden, and fellow Arkansan Woodrow Crockett. Not only did Crenchaw serve at Tuskegee but he also served at Fort Sill in Oklahoma from 1953 to 1954, Camp Rucker (now Fort Rucker) in Alabama from 1954 to 1966, and Fort Stewart in Georgia from 1966 until 1972. While at Camp Rucker, Crenchaw conquered another first. He became the first black flight instructor on these predominantly white airbases.

This is your chance to present one of the last living Original Tuskegee Airmen. Call Rich Torrence today.

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