How Did African Americans Fight For Equality

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African Americans have long fought and struggled to gain equality and respect. Despite these struggles African Americans have also made many great strides towards equality. The Tuskegee Airmen are a great example of men that made history through their strides towards equality for African Americans. This paper will outline who the Tuskegee Airmen were, the struggles that they fought through and the outcome of this fight. Over the past 300 years African Americans have stood up against limited opportunities and prejudice and played a large role in the U.S military history. Before the year of 1940 African Americans were barred from doing many things in the military. The thinking behind this is that African Americans were not qualified enough to be trained for combat and flying duties The white man simply did not believe that African Americans were smart enough and skilled enough to complete all jobs in the military. Since they were not thought to be qualified they were not chosen for specific positions in the military one specifically not having anything to do with flying fighter planes, training to fly them, training to repair them etc. The most significant year in military history for African American pilots specifically is the year of 1940. African Americans were able to win their fight against the military prejudices and the first Civilian Pilot…show more content…
The Tuskegee Airmen included pilots, navigators, bombardiers, maintenance and support staff, instructors, and all the personnel who kept the planes in the air. The reason that they called this the “Tuskegee Experiment” is because the white man was not sure that this would work. There was not much faith that the African Americans would make good fighter pilots let alone stand out to make history one
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