A Georgia native, he was among the famed Tuskegee Airmen who helped pave the way amid World War II for the desegregation of the U.S. military. At a Veterans Day event in Riverdale on Monday ...

Tuskegee Airman Roscoe Draper, a pioneering flight instructor, passes away at 105. His legacy lives on in military, educational, and sociohistorical milestones.

Police believe the statute honoring the highly respected Black unit of miliatry pilots was stolen late Tuesday night and was ...

Jefferson later taught in schools and served as a vice principal. He also helped form the Tuskegee Airmen chapter in Detroit. The airmen were the nation’s first all-Black air fighter squadron.

Col. Alexander Jefferson. “It's a serious slap in the face of a lot of people involved,” said Eric Palmer of the Tuskegee Airmen Detroit chapter. “It's baffling. It's seriously baffling.” ...

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American military pilots in the US and Jefferson was one of the first few to escort bombers in the war. According to the National Air and Space Museum ...

Col. Alexander Jefferson. Jefferson was a Tuskegee Airmen pilot, World War II POW and — later in life — a Detroit Public Schools teacher. An undated courtesy photo of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson.

He also helped form the Tuskegee Airmen chapter in Detroit.The airmen were the nation's first all-Black air fighter squadron. They trained and fought separately from white fighter units due to ...