The Tuskegee Airmen: The History and Legacy of America's First Black Fighter Pilots in World War II

*Includes pictures
*Includes accounts of training, combat, and segregation written by multiple members of the Tuskegee Airmen
*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading
*Includes a table of contents

"When World War II started, the black press and the black community wanted blacks to be able to fly because in 1925, the military had done a study that said that blacks didn't have the intelligence, ability, or coordination to fly airplanes. The pressure from the NAACP and the...