"1920-04-05Z"^^ . "2001-08-10Z"^^ . . . . . "2001Z"^^ . . . "Curator at the National Air and Space Museum (U.S.), decorated Tuskegee Airman during World War II." . . . "Louis Rayfield Purnell, Sr. (April 5, 1920 \u2013 August 10, 2001) was a noted curator at the National Air and Space Museum and earlier in life, a decorated Tuskegee Airman. At the museum, he became expert in space flight artifacts, particularly spacesuits, and was instrumental in curating artifacts related to space exploration, during the 1960s and into the 1980s. Purnell was the first African-American to become a curator at the Smithsonian Institution."@en . "1920-04-11Z"^^ . "1920Z"^^ . "Louis Rayfield Purnell, Sr."@en . "Purnell, Louis Rayfield"@en . .