Between 1941 and 1945, Tuskegee Institute trained over 1,000 black aviators for the war effort.

Anderson was a self-taught black civilian and experienced aviator who learned how to fly before the war.

Tuskegee trained over 1,000 black aviators during the war, about half of whom served overseas.

Powell then founded the Bessie Coleman Aero Club, in honor of the first female black aviator who had died three years before.

Dressed in a black aviator's suit, Abdul Jamal had his back to them, a gun in one hand, a cane in the other.

For the last five years he has also been wanting to make a film about black aviators in World War II.

The 477th Bombardment Group was formed in 1944 to extend the so-called "Tuskegee experiment" by allowing black aviators to serve on bomber crews.

Robinson became the first black female naval aviator to be carrier qualified.

In the 1950s the airport operation was taken over by a pioneering black aviator, U. L. Gooch ("Rip").

The black aviators of the 332d Fighter Group were known as the Tuskegee Airmen, after the Alabama college where they trained.