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This photo of a black man with a white woman didn't settle well with most people at the time; it's especially important that the lady was the FLOTUS

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Given by President Bush

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Charles Alfred Anderson: Breaking Barriers

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Charles Alfred Anderson: Breaking Barriers

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-first African American with a commercial pilots license
-flew first lady Eleanor Roosevelt
-brought attention to Tuskegee cause

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The Red Tails used their flying fineness to gain the respect of their fellow white pilots...eventually even white pilots requested to be escorted by the African American pilots, which was unheard of for that time period.

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-Awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation for destroying 3 German planes on their way to Berlin
-8 Purple Hearts
-14 Bronze Stars
3 Distinguished Unit Citations
-96 Distinguished Flying Crosses

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Only 66 of the Red Tails died in combat - lowest loss record of any escort fighter group

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Showed the world that they were just as brave and patriotic as their fellow white pilots. This started to set the scene for  the civil rights movement.

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1941: 4,000 African American soldiers in US armed forces
1945: 1.2 mill.

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-All of the planes that these pilots flew were painted with red tails
-This tried to show that these pilots were all the same even if the Tuskegee Airmen were a different skin color.

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Many African American pilots were learning to fly planes as well as fighting for their own civil rights. This was a very tough situation.

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First African American US Military Pilots

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First African American US Military Pilots

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- segregated because of Jim Crow laws
- armed forces = not officially integrated until 1948; although, US joined the WWII effort following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor