Interview: Alexander, Walter G. II, 2009
Item
- Resource class
- Interview
- Title
- Interview: Alexander, Walter G. II, 2009
- Type
- Interview
- Interviewee
- Alexander, Walter G. II
- Birth Year
- 1922
- Birth Place
- Petersburg, Virginia
- Rutgers Graduating Class
- 1943
- Interviewer
- Holyoak, Sandra Stewart
- Dzendzera, Catherine
- Location Created
- South Orange, New Jersey
- Date Created
- 6 November 2009
- Abstract
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Dr. Alexander was born in 1922 in Petersburg, Virginia. He attended Orange High school in New Jersey before he was accepted to Rutgers on a scholarship. He was a member of ROTC, the engineering program, and the Rutgers track team. A Tuskegee Airman, he graduated from Rutgers with a degree in mechanical engineering, then went to work for Douglas Aircraft as a draftsman in California. He enlisted in the USAAF in 1944 and trained at Keesler and Tuskegee Army Airbases as a fighter pilot. World War II ended before he was deployed. He later attended Howard University's dental school and became a distinguished dentist in New Jersey.
Dr. Alexander was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Rutgers African-American Alunni Alliance in 2007. He was inducted into the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 2009. - Collection
- Rutgers Oral History Archives
- Repository
- Rutgers Oral History Archives (ROHA) at Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Rights
- Permission to quote from this transcript must be obtained from the Rutgers Oral History Archives.
- Subject
- Rutgers Alumni
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick
- School of Engineering (Rutgers)
- Dentistry
- Tuskegee Airmen
- Military
- Great Migration
- Medicine
- Identifier
- ROHA-Alexander
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