INTRODUCTION
For decades after World War II, the first black pilots in American military history were relatively unknown. Americans became increasingly aware of the contributions of African Americans to their cultural heritage during and after the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. By the end of the twentieth century, the “Tuskegee Airmen” had become famous in newspaper and magazine articles, books, films, television programs, and museum exhibits. Unfortunately, their story was told not only by historians using primary source documents, but also by others less familiar with history than with legend. A number of false claims circulated, many of them based on an ignorance of the chronological sequence of events that formed the skeleton of the true story. This book is an effort to provide a framework for Tuskegee Airmen history while at the same time revealing their historically significant accomplishments.
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 A Short History Of The Tuskegee Airmen
Chapter 2 Tuskegee Airmen Chronology
Chapter 3 Historic Photographs
Chapter 4 Film - Negro Pilots (1943)
Chapter 5 Negro Colleges in Wartime (1944)
