Sunny Nash's video: Tuskegee Airmen Jim Crow Laws and Civil Rights

Before the Civil Rights Movement, Tuskegee Airmen fought Jim Crow laws to become black pilots during WWII. http://sunnynash.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-philip-randolph-tuskegee-airmen-jim.html Tuskegee Airmen were the first American trained black pilots to fly combat airplanes, known as Red Tails, during WWII when Jim Crow laws prevailed in the United States military and other aspects of American society. Before Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, A. Philip Randolph and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt were instrumental in getting black pilots trained for combat by convincing President Franklin Roosevelt to authorize the Tuskegee Airmen program. A. Philip Randolph was labeled the most dangerous black man in America because of his ability to organize people around a cause like the Tuskegee Airmen. If anyone could pull off black pilots in the U.S. military, it would be A. Philip Randolph and his partner in the venture, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who was known to influence her husband, Franklin Roosevelt in matters of race and human rights. For more Sunny Nash articles on race relations in America, visit her blog: Sunny Nash -- Race Relations in America http://sunnynash.blogspot.com/ Sunny Nash writes on U.S. race relations through topics relating to her childhood and life that include Jim Crow laws, education, employment, food, music, film, early radio and television, entertainment, social media, internet technology, publishing, journalism, sports, the military, fashion, performing arts, literature, civil rights history, and social and political movements--past and present.