Tuskegee Airmen in Italy in 1944Submitted by can1exy t3_ycc9ds in OldSchoolCool
appliedecology t1_itm2ac0 wrote
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After the war, six Tuskegee airmen lived in my small historically segregated neighborhood. Not one of them was allowed to eat or stay at the downtown hotels for another 20 years. Those dudes changed military and social history.
Impressive-Shame4516 t1_itng2iw wrote
Treatment of minority veterans after WW2 was a massive catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
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