todd moye is also the author of what the people decide. in addition to numerous scholarly articles, review article that up beds, graduate of the university of north carolina chapel hill where he earned his b.a. in history at university of texas austin where he earned his m.a. and ph.d. degrees todd moye directed the national park services oral history project from 2000 to 2005. please join me in welcoming professor todd moye to vote roosevelt reading festival. [applause] >> thank you very much. great to be here. i need to look for more reasons to travel from texas to the hudson valley. this is a great place to be ended as always fun to come back to the fdr library. this book began as an oral history project. from 2000 to 2005 i was one of five historians who worked for the national park service developing a national historic site called the tuskegee site in tuskegee, alabama where the tuskegee airmen work. the national park service dedicated a significant amount of money to interviewing the surviving tuskegee mn to work those in to program

now is my pleasure to introduce todd moye who is sitting to my right. todd moye has been associate professor of history of the university of north texas and director of that university's history program. todd moye will be speaking today about his new book "freedom flyer: the tuskegee airmen of world war ii". a narrative history of the most significant civil-rights struggle of the world ii e >> in addition to numerous scholarly articles and op-edhere graduate from university ofar north carolina chapel hill where he earned his ph.d. -- ph.d. degree he directed the park service tuskegee airmen project through 2005. 00 welcomen me tok es professor at todd moye to the roosevelt reading festival. [applause] >> thank you very much.ch i need to look for more reasons to travel from texas intol the hudson valley in the middle of the summer. it is a great place to bee b and to come back to the fdr library. it began as the oral historyl project 2000 through 2005 if i was one of five historians who worked for the national park service developing avi new site in tusk

coming up in a few minutes todd moye on the tuskegee airmen of world war ii.in about an hour weekly standard literary editor philip terzian presents his book "architects of power" subaid. and about two hours, we will take a break from her coverage from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum to show you an event from the atlantic history cent.