tuskegee airmen

The Tuskegee Airman will always be the most influential air squadron during WWII. I believe this because there where a lot racist people that did not want them to succeed, but they did more than just succeed. They became the first black Airforce pilots. It all started when President Roosevelt arranged a meeting in September 1940 with three African-American leaders and members of the Army and Navy. During the meeting, the leaders emphasized three points: first, equal opportunity for jobs in the defense industry, second, impartial administration of the new draftlaw, and finally an opportunity for qualified blacks to learn to fly in desegrated units. A few days after the meeting, the War Department issued a policy stating that black men would be generally admitted into the armed force in numbers equivalent to their percentage in the civilian population. It was not until a couple months after the meeting in December 1940, that the Army Air Corps submitted a plan for the experiment to ...