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, ...

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 ...

Orlando International Airport honors the contributions and sacrifices of the nation’s first African-American military pilots in a new community exhibit. The exhibit is presented in celebration ...

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.

On behalf of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF), the exhibit RISE ABOVE showed a 30-minute film chronicling the U.S. military’s first African-American pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen. The exhibit was ...

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American pilots who saw combat during the Second World War. The 332nd Fighter Group stands apart from any other air force fighter groups in the ...