Hello, This is Jenea M. and Jesse G.from Mr. Sals and Ms. Beyers 1st period 20th Century Class.

The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of aspiring pilots, who came to the Tuskegee Airbase to begin training to become fighter pilots in the war.  During the training they were discriminated against for being African Americans.  The white pilots thought that they were insufficient compared to themselves.  These pilots in training were put to tough tests, flight school, and manuverability test in the airplanes.  After getting their pilots license, they started scouting and doing ground patrol runs.

The white airmen didnt want to share the same space as the African Americans because they thought they were not good enough to fight in the war.  Unbeknownst to their knowledge that they actually needed the African American pilots to help escort the bomber planes so they wouldnt lose their men to the opposing enemy planes.  They needed them because they were better than what some white pilots and captains predicted.

The preception that the Tuskegee Airmen had changed was that colored men were just as good as the white men, if not better. They could fly and fight and bring down the enemy jusy as well as the white pilots could. They proved that everyone can do whatever they want no matter what color their skin was.