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  • 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...

  • U. S. Buffalo Soldiers

    see also: ~• should be combined with this one Buffalo Soldiers originally were members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, formed on September 21, 1866 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This nickname was given to the "Negro Cavalry" by the Native American tribes they fought; the term eventually became synonymous with all of the African American regiments formed in 1866: The...

  • Non European early settlement in Australia - Index

    DNA tests have been taken by a large section of our population and, many of us have found we stem from non European families. Australia is a very diverse country, and was settled from all over the globe. The resilience of Australians can probably be accredited to this fact.This project hopefully will help family researchers, accompanied by the dna results and matches, we may find some connectio...