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

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...