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Comprehend and stood their ground and persevered and as a result today we are not a perfect world by any stretch but a better world. >> that's right. >> mike: i don't know. your career wouldn't be this successful without the people like that. >> absolutely. they say we would rather die in the skies over berlin fighting nor our country than come back and face the racism that is still evident. it is true. you see the things that they did. essentially kicked off the civil rights movement with the protests at the time. they weren't allowed a lot of the advantages afforded the officers. airmen were...

They weren't allowed a lot of the advantages afforded the officers. airmen were by definition officers and they couldn't go into the officer's club. an interesting thing where they had german prisoners of war flew to -- they flew them over because of overpa overpopulatin the south and had them on this base where this were tuskegee airmen and the prisoners of war, german prisoners of war had ps opened the la pells and could go anywhere in the base. they cosimo in th could do go e officer's club and everything. they protested and some of them got dishonorably discharged and there was a court tri...

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