The mint on Monday released the 2021 America the Beautiful Quarter honoring the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site. “It is fitting that such a significant historic site will complete this successful coin program,” Mint Director David J. Ryder said in a news release. RELATED: African American aviators made history at Tuskegee, and in WWIIThe Tuskegee Airman National Historic Site at Moton Field in Tuskegee commemorates the Tuskegee Airmen who trained there during World War II. It was the site of the “Tuskegee Experiment,” the U.S. Army Air Corps program to train pilots and crewmen during World War II. As the mint noted, “the term ‘Tuskegee Airmen’ pertains to both men and women of diverse nationalities.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 05, 2021 18:00 UTC