Jessica, 8th grade, continues the story:
In the morning, we learned about the 332nd platoon of the Tuskegee Airmen
also known as the Red Tails that consisted of
'Negros' . The ranger we met at the museum told us that the term
'Negros' did not refer to just African
Americans. Back then, that term was applied to all that weren't either white or
of Asian descent. Also, we learned these people didn't just fight our enemies
in WW2 but fought the discrimination in America. Since people thought that only
whites could maneuver a plane, the Tuskegee Airmen were kept secret. For a
while the documents were sealed by the government but later on it was accepted
that they were in the military air force. Some accomplishments for the Red Tails
were that they integrated the military which allowed no segregation to happen
and 72 pilots shot down 112 of the enemy aircraft. After the war, they were received
with no celebration but were taken to a segregated bus instead. The men from
the 332nd platoon wanted to change this and join Martin Luther King, Jr.
Daisy, 7th grade:
Today was a day full of learning. When we arrived at our first stop, the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, I hardly knew anything about who were the Tuskegee Airmen and what they did. So as I learned more about them I was more and more intrigued with how they changed the whites' perspective on how blacks fight in the war. What also intrigued me was when I learned that 104 black officers were arrested for trying or actually entering a whites-only officers' club. I found that interesting and cool because I knew something like that would happen, but I didn't expect many officers to try and stand up for what was right.
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