Zellie Orr, center, stands with the Tuskegee Airmen and others in front of the Tuskegee Airmen Parkway sign on Camp Creek Pkwy, named in their
honor. (Photo courtesy of Robyn K. Mizelle, City of College Park, GA.)
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involved in the U.S. Army Air Corps program to train
aircraft, to perform in all positions necessary to function
support. They were pilots and non-pilots, men and women,
military and civilians, blacks and whites.
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United States military. Rigid segregation policies, mob lynchings,
and blatant disregard for human and civil rights of African
Americans were commonplace.
right to uphold the status quo. Studies such as the Army War
inferior and believed himself to be inferior to the white man,
not control himself in the face of danger and did not have the