Role of Tuskegee Airmen

[Name of the institute]Role of Tuskegee Airmen

Introduction

Background History

The United States formed one purposeful organization in 1909 named NAACP or “National Association for the Advancement of Colored People” that aimed to protect the civil rights of African-American on the U.S. According to Brownlee (2012), it focused on ensuring the embracing of equal political, social, educational and economic rights to every individual regardless of any racism, color or creed. It has majorly worked for Black Americans and some other colored based discriminated people. One of the most popular fighter groups in U.S. was Tuskegee Airmen who fought voluntarily and bravely in World War II (Culhane et al., 2012).

According to Haulman (2012a), in those times the African-Americans were subjected to mere biasness in majority of the states of the country according to the “Jim Crow Laws”. There were immense practices of racial discrimination even on government bases that included federal as well. All Blacks in the army did not receive the deserving respect and acknowledgement and they were mostly trained separately in Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1944, they were brought into real action and were relocated in Italy to fight the combat. The pilots painted the tails of the plane red in order to show their presence (Haulman, 2012b).

Responses

According to Hoberman (2012), the other squads in the army did not appreciate their inclusion and there were even recommendations posted to deprive them from participating. However, the situation in the World War II allowed them to fly the planes which were a symbol of dignity for them.

Political Barriers

According to Richardson (2012), there was no African American who might have served in the U.S. military before Tuskegee. There was immense racism that often had encouraged the rejection of WW-I African-Americans. Later, Walter White led the protest against the violation of civil rights for ...