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Before Red Tails: Black Servicemen in World War I

Book cover of Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I by Adriane Lentz-Smith

Moviegoers who recently flocked to cinemas around the country to take in George Lucas’ World War II aviation blockbuster, Red Tails, may be unaware of the long and checkered history of black servicemen in the American military in the decades before the ascendance of the now famous Tuskegee Airmen.

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