More than a year before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt heard arguments from the civil rights leaders of the ...

In early 1941, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who had heard about the ... four in a fiery battle over the Mediterranean. The Tuskegee airmen successfully engaged the enemy again that afternoon ...

Roosevelt authorized the enlistment ... Pia Marie Winters Jordan, daughter of a Tuskegee nurse and author of "Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and Her Military Sisters," perhaps sums their ...

"The Tuskegee Airmen did something that was said they ... In 1941, in a much-publicized visit, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt ...

Eleanor Roosevelt visited Kennedy Field and flew with Chief Alfred Anderson, an African American Instructor Pilot; and President George W. Bush presented the Tuskegee Airmen with the Congressional ...

Theodore Roosevelt Stiger was a young ... The students created a large scrapbook featuring images of UM, Tuskegee Airmen, newspaper clippings, photos of Stiger and letters they wrote to him ...