Genealogy Projects tagged with First African American Pilots in WWII on the Geni Family Tree

Tuskegee Airmen

Before the Tuskegee Airmen, no African American had ever been a United States military pilot. The Jim Crow laws, a series of racist laws that enforced the “separate but equal” treatment of African Americans, were used as justification for blocking previous attempts by African American soldiers to become pilots. During WWII, the Tuskegee Airmen were credited with destroying 261 enemy planes, doi...