NYU Alumni, Tuskegee Airmen Archer, Jr. and Brown, Jr. Honored by New York’s CICU

    Two NYU alumni and former Tuskegee airmen were among the 19 individuals inducted on March 3 into the Alumni Hall of Distinction for New York’s Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities. Lee Archer, Jr. (GSAS ’56) and Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. (Steinhardt ’49, ’51) were honored during the 2008 Independent Sector Alumni Hall of Distinction awards ceremony held in the War Room of the New York State Capitol in Albany.

    The Tuskegee pilots were the first African American military airmen in the U.S. Armed Forces. Archer, Brown, and fellow Tuskegee airman Harry Stewart, Jr. (ENG’63) were honored with Distinguished Alumnus Awards by the NYU Alumni Association in 2006. In 2007, the airmen received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award bestowed by the U.S. Congress.