Dr. Kamin Samuel, the first African American woman to be a helicopter pilot in the US Navy, joins Lisa Dent. Dr. Samuel ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- Willa Brown, an African American trailblazer from Glasgow, Kentucky, has broken countless barriers in the United States. As Bob Pitchford, a historian at Aviation Heritage Park, ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.

Things were said that African Americans weren’t smart enough to be pilots, but we prevailed," said George Hamilton. The ...

Peter Bentzon (ca. 1783–after 1850) was not only a free man; he was also a silversmith and jeweler who worked in Philadelphia and on the Caribbean island of St. Croix. Bentzon’s work is recognized ...

it is also famous for its relation to the Tuskegee Airmen. The campus was the training ground for the first African American ...

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen’s service in World War II is inspiring: When skilled African American pilots, grounded because of their race, finally won the opportunity to serve their country ...

Historical drama about the first African-American pilots in the US military during World War II. In 1942, a group of college graduates are selected for training as pilots in the Army Air Corps at ...