Original Tuskegee Airmen

Three of the original Tuskegee Airmen in Ramitelli, Italy; March 1945. Arkansan Woodrow W. Crockett is shown standing.

African American men in aviator jackets and hats around table looking at papers with maps on the walls

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Media

Time Period

World War II through the Faubus Era (1941 - 1967)

Category

Civil Rights and Social Change / Race / World War II to Faubus Era

Type

Group

Race & Ethnicity

African American

Gender

Male

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