Hanging in my judicial chambers at the National Courts Building in Washington, D.C., is a depiction of the Red Tails—P-51 fighter planes piloted by the Tuskegee Airmen—escorting American bombers back to their base during World War II. It’s admittedly an odd choice of artwork for me. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American military pilots. I …
Lessons in Excellence from the Tuskegee Airmen
A class of newly commissioned pilots at Tuskegee Army Flying School in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1942. (Photo by Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images)
During WWII, the first black military pilots proved the bigots wrong, doing their job better than any other unit in the U.S. Air Force.
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