Tuskegee+Airmen


 * by Emmett, Mouss****a, and Jabari from grade 5 and 6**

The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of Black pilots who never gave up. They were persecuted throughout their entire learning experience in the military. They trained harder and longer compared to the white pilots. The white pilots didn’t even have to salute the Black officers. The Tuskegee Airmen were brave for going to Tuskegee to learn how to become pilots, because they were under the heel of oppression and segregation and people didn’t think they could succeed in the Air Force. The Tuskegee Airmen were far more advanced in aeronautical aviation than the other pilots. They had a lot of training because they were the last group to go to war. They were the people who protected the bombers. They did a great job because all of the bombers felt safe when the Tuskegee Airmen were around. The Tuskegee Airmen did an excellent job even when there was so much racism. The entire military was segregated, even the activities. All the Black people had to sit in the balcony in the movie theater so no one could see them. Everyone who was a Tuskegee Airmen was Black: the cooks, the repairmen and the people who started the airplanes. The Tuskegee Airmen were treated without respect. Even the Nazi prisoners got treated better than them. The Tuskegee Airmen were hoping that after the war race relations would change for the better.

During World War II the Tuskegee Airmen were placed in several different countries such as North Africa and Sicily. They were forced to move because they kept getting bad reviews from the white officers. They were transferred to different countries because of the racism in the Armed Force.

In order to learn how to fly an airplane the Tuskegee Airmen had to endure racial persecution. They were abused in the military. Their training was long and brutal. The white soldiers didn’t respect the Black officers. The Tuskegee Airmen were valiant for going to the military because they knew what they were getting into, and they joined anyway. At first the Tuskegee Airmen didn’t get as much credit as they deserved. But they helped the integration of the military in 1948 by proving that no one’s abilities should be judged by their skin color and how they appear.