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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 19 > Civil rights victory party is building in Washington

Civil rights victory party is building in Washington

Inaugural tapestry weaving together Tuskegee Airmen, the Little Rock Nine and many civil rights activists who have anxiously awaited this day

By Katharine Q. Seelye / The Bulletin
January 19, 2009

WASHINGTON — Joseph Burrucker, 82, was an air traffic controller with the Tuskegee Airmen in the 1940s. For the last few weeks, he has been working out at a gym near his home in Shaker Heights, Ohio, trying to get in shape so that when he comes to Barack Obama’s inauguration,....

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