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By Jeremy | March 1, 2008
Crispus Attucks (1723-1770)
The tale of the Boston Massacre has been told innumerable times. The citizens of Boston had been feeling harassed by the British “red coats.†The time came when “[a] group of citizens, apparently led by a tall robust man with a dark face appeared on the scene.†This man was Crispus Attucks, the first American to fall in the American Revolution, who paid with his life for confronting the British soldiers.More.
The Tuskegee Airmen
Mounting pressure by black leaders and the black press to increase their presence in all branches of military service eventually persuaded a reluctant War Department to allow for the training of blacks as fighter pilots (initially no training for bomber crews) at an isolated field at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, thus preempting contact with white trainees. Despite this and the later action of a white commander to sabotage their efforts, 992 African American cadets participated in the “Tuskegee Experiment†and completed the Army Air Corps course between July 19, 1941 and the end of World War II. ...
The Tuskegee Airmen were the only Army Air Force group not to lose an escorted Allied bomber to an enemy aircraft attack. Moreover, their outstanding performance served to bolster African American pride and facilitated the transition to an integrated military in the post-war years. Among the Tuskegee Airmen emerged a number of future leaders including San Francisco physician Dr. Wendell Lipscomb and four-star Air Force General Daniel “Chappie†James.
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