Tuskegee Airmen Research Papers

Amani Collette The Rousing Red-Tails “So the question is, "Why did we black Aviators fly for a nation that did not respect us?”...Flying was a challenge and something I wanted to do. I wanted to be a valuable asset to our country”. Yenwith Whitney(Tuskegee Airmen MIT Black History) Yenwith Whitney was a professor, a father, and a husband. This may seem ordinary, but only if you ignore one huge aspect of his life. He was a pilot, and a member of a group of heroes, called the Tuskegee Airmen.The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American flying unit in the military. After years of pressure from prominent African American groups in the US, the US military formed the Tuskegee Airmen in 1941. The group trained at Tuskegee Army Air field, and

Furthermore, there is a quote by Major General Frank Hunter, in which he states “The country is not ready to accept white officers and colored officers at the same social level,”(Evans). These quotes and facts are examples of how the Tuskegee Airmen fought against segregation, and the Freeman Field Mutiny demonstrates an important part of the group’s identity, their activism and their fight for Black rights. Overall, the Tuskegee Airmen were activists who advocated for African Americans right at home. Not only were they champions of Black rights, but they also fought against oppression abroad. Another way the Tuskegee Airmen made a positive impact is that they were an important part of the Allied troops, and fought against tyranny abroad. Over the course of WW2, the Tuskegee Airmen fought against the Nazi’s and their allies, and among other things, performed the critical role of escorting bomber planes throughout missions. Bomber planes were the planes that the US Air Force mainly used to bomb and fight the Nazis. The Tuskegee Airmen ran hundreds of missions, and along with protecting fighting planes, they shot about 261 enemy aircraft down (The Editors of Encyclopedia