Tag: Tuskegee Airmen

On This Day: Tuskegee Airmen’s Example Helped Desegregate the Military

By Tony Pettinato on March 19, 2019

An article about the 99th Pursuit Squadron (the “Tuskegee Airmen”), which was activated on 19 March 1941, the first Black unit of the Army Air Corps... (Read More)

African American Heroes: Tuskegee Airmen

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on February 29, 2016

Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers and other sources to learn about the WWII African American pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen... (Read More)