For a brief period, the Air Force stopped showing videos about the Tuskegee Airmen and the first women pilots in the Air Force.
Their all-Black nd Fighter Group had one of the lowest loss records of all the bomber escorts in the war. Tuskegee Airmen Inc. The Air Force publicly announced it was complying with President Trump's directive to root out DEI programs , and the backlash to erasing the teaching about Black and female contributions was building. The Air Force soon edited the videos and returned them to the curriculum. Who knows what they felt compelled to remove?
In , President George W. Both were organized separately in September The women typically ferried aircraft and took on other flying roles to free up men for combat.
The bigger question is whether President Donald Trump can resegregate the military and federal government via executive order. The answer appears to be yes. There is a precedent for resegregating the military and federal government. President Harry Truman gets credit for integrating the military and federal government in via Executive Order Many departments and some of the armed forces had long been partially integrated.
Black seamen in the Navy ate and bunked with their white counterparts. Truman had come a long way from , when he revealed his views in a letter to his wife, Bess. They served in many roles, including carpenters and pilots. Many Black sailors had experience from having served in the Royal Navy. Most of the Black sailors were free men, though some enslaved people enlisted with the approval of their masters.
