A Message from our CEO
Pictured (from left to right): Freedom songs leader Brenda Watty, Sarasota School Superintendent Terry Conner, SAACC CEO Vickie Oldham and community scholar Walter Gilbert.
Our work at SAACC is about more than preserving history—it’s about uplifting legacy. History calls us to act that the future is brighter for generations unborn. We’re here to tell the stories that textbooks and the media missed, the ones passed down through generations, full of faith, strength, and determination.
We recently learned that Lt. Col. George E. Hardy—the last living Tuskegee Airman fighter pilot from WWII—resides right here in our community. That’s the kind of history that surrounds us, waiting to be honored…