Pioneers in Flight

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt strapped into a Piper J- 3 Cub on March 29, 1941, at Tuskegee University. She was only off the ground for half an hour, but the legacy of that flight lasted forever.The pilot that day was a Black man, C. Alfred “Chief” Anderson, and his program at the university became the Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black military fighter pilots in the U.S. military....