Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120120:23:50:00
1930s, and you loved airplanes. but segregation kept preventing you from flying for the military. and then that all changed. tell us about it. >> it changed largely because of the efforts of the naacp and the black press because in 1925, the military had issued a study that said that blacks didn't have the coordination, the intelligence or the leadership ability to be pilots. when world war ii came about, they wanted blacks to support it. so the black press and naacp said, look. we want people in the best branches of the service, the most glamorous flying. so as a result, they created this pro...
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