The Tuskegee Airmen: America's Black Eagles
The Tuskegee Airmen -- "America's Black Air Force" in WWII
The pilots of America’s WWII armed forces were highly skilled flyers who became the stars of war stories and the ingredients of legends. These Black pilots were and are the first line of defense, the protectors of our fleets and the rulers of the skies against all enemies. From their unique perspective, they were confronted with the odious question: “Can African Americans fly airplanes and fight?”
Despite the obstacles, the all-Black 99th Fighter Squadron, the first wave of Black pilots, was established and subsequently sent overseas to fight the Nazi menace and test the validity of "the experiment” to measure Black manhood. The 99th proved that African Americans could fly and the accomplishments of the Tuskegee Airmen guaranteed that the combat ability of Blacks can never again be denied. Therefore, the battle for today’s integrated military was won largely by the battle-tested performance of the Tuskegee Airmen.
If Blacks do not teach our children and grandchildren where they came from and the circumstances of an advanced heritage and higher civilization that documents them as the descendants of the originators of human civilization, Blacks will always be born into an inherent slave mentality that encourages them to seek low aspirations and play the role of a human cohort of losers with an inferiority syndrome.
Therefore, ultimately, what Blacks do to help themselves and a realization of the achievements of their ancient and past history is far more important than the attitude of Whites toward Blacks. Nowhere in history is that fact more eloquently demonstrated than in the case of The Tuskegee Airmen during WWII.
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WE STOOD WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
“I was there 50 years ago, in 1963, one of the last two Directors left standing, where 500,000 marchers once stood.” --Tony Brown
“LARGEST CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH IN HISTORY”
The following week, in its July 29, 1963 edition, Business Week magazine called the Detroit event the “largest civil rights march in history.” Subsequently, an official police source, in an affidavit, confirmed an attendance of “no fewer than 250,000 and as many as 500,000 people.” Black people came mostly from throughout the nearby Midwest region.
More official confirmation has been forthcoming since then. Nearly 40 years later, in 2003, The Wall Street Journal would report on page one that the famed King Dream Speech may have had its roots -- not at the March on Washington (which drew 250,000), on August 28, 1963, but elsewhere, perhaps 66 days before in Detroit, Michigan where the attendance may have reached, according to an official police affidavit, 500,000 people.
Although I had no official role in the Washington March, I did witness it as a Detroit correspondent for the national Pittsburgh Courier newspaper chain of African-American local publications throughout the United States, an affiliate of the Black Press, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial within a few feet of Dr. King and I was included in Life magazine’s limited photo coverage of this historic event.
All of this in only 66 days! My head was spinning with excitement and wonderment. It seemed that my Detroit decision to choose activism as a way of life had become my destiny.
2013 – 50th Anniversary “Walk to Freedom March” – Detroit, MI
Tony Brown (center) Grand Marshal of the 2nd and final Detroit March on June 22, 2013, drew 200,000, with his grandson Remy Harris (left) and Jesse Jackson (right).
