![]() ![]() On Januthe War Department announced that a Black flying unit would be formed within the Army Air Corps (9). In 1940 Black pilot Charles Alfred Anderson came to head up the training program at Tuskegee (2). ![]() F.D.R was persuaded by his decision by the N.A.A.C.P and by Black newspapers like the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Defender (4). ![]() In September 1940, when President Franklin Roosevelt announced that the Army Air Corps would soon begin training Black pilots (), the War Department choose the Tuskegee Army Airfield as a training site (4). In the years from 1939 to 1940 almost 100 Black pilots completed the training of the Civilian Pilot Training Program, but the Army Air Corps refused to let them in (2). In 1939 this Civilian Pilot Training Program was granted to the Black segregated college of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) (). In 1939, Congress ordered the Army Air Corp to accept Blacks into the Civilian Pilot Training Program to provide a cadre of trained pilots should the country be plunged into war (). The beginnings of the Tuskegee Airmen came as a direct response from a 1925 study conducted by the American Military which concluded that “Blacks didn’t have the intelligence, ability, or coordination to fly airplanes”(). ![]()
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