Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen documents the lives and legacies of the 27 Black pilots who went missing near the end of combat on the European front. Credit: Courtesy Photo / TPR
The San Antonio Book Festival, in partnership with Alamo Colleges District, Texas Public Radio and SAAACAM, this Thursday will present author Cheryl W. Thompson to discuss her book Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen.
Thompson, an investigative journalist with NPR and the daughter of a Tuskegee Airman, documents the lives and legacies of the 27 Black pilots who went missing near the end of combat on the European front defending a country that treated them as disposable before, during and after World War II.
Registration is recommended and an author signing session will follow the reading.
Free, 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, Malú & Carlos Alvarez Studio Theater at Texas Public Radio, 321 W. Commerce St., (210) 750-8951, sabookfestival.org.
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