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...When the 99th (Negro) Fighter Squadron was formed, Lawyer Hastie insisted that it should not be segregated from white outfits, either in training or operation. It was. In the conflict between the ethical right of the Negro soldier and officer to be treated like anyone else, and the practical impossibility of doing it in the face of existing prejudice, the Air Forces had chosen the practical...
Sepia Soldiers. The Tuskegee school to train pilots for the 99th Fighter Squadron of the Army Air Forces was established in July 1941. Primary pilot training began on a small field near Tuskegee Institute, the famed Negro college, was carried on into its basic and advanced stages in November and January at a spanking new airport every bit as good as those built for white pilots. Candidates were chosen by the same rigorous examinations applied to white folks. The supervisory post officers, including instructors in basic and primary stages, were white...
...months Negro editors pointedly ignored the Tuskegee flying school. When they could no longer ignore it, they poured out tirades against "Uncle Toms"-the Negroes who were willing to be in Negro units. One member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People who praised the 99th Fighter Squadron and who dared castigate critics of segregation was read out of the organization. One Negro weekly which derives advertising revenue from manufacturers of skin bleaches and hair straighteners-and which nevertheless proclaims the superiority of the Negro race-regularly inveighed against segregation at Tuskegee...
...guest on Information Please, Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia recognized the ingredients of spaghetti sauce,* the duets in Tristan & Isolde, missed when he said he was New York City's 99th mayor (correct: 103rd, counting acting mayors). Encyclopedia and $25 went to Questioner Maury Maverick, ex-Mayor of San Antonio. Sunny Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron turned up in sunny Miami bundled up in an overcoat and a smug grin. Michigan's Governor Murray Van Wagoner signed up for rhumba lessons. His abstemious predecessor, Luren D. Dickinson, 82, announced that if he got "a call from...
...will also have accommodations for 2,000 men, including 400 pilots - an implied promise that if the 99th turns out to be a good flying outfit the Air Forces will have more of the same kind. From top to bottom such outfits will be all black. To service the 99th's planes, guns and instruments, the Army is training 278 Negro mechanics at Illinois's Chanute Field...