Black History Month Ideas: The Tuskegee Airmen

December 18, 2018 9:08 pm ,

The Tuskegee Airmen were African American pilots who fought in World War 2. They flew more than 15,000 individual sorties in Europe and North Africa during World War II. Their impressive performance earned them more than 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses, and helped encourage the eventual integration of the U.S. armed forces.

This event will give participants the opportunity to learn about the airmen and create and decorate a paper model Mustang with the colors the 332nd Fighter Group used on their aeroplanes.

The Kid Scraps Mustang model is available here 

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has an online game that allows you to act as a flight leader for the Tuskegee Airmen, you can play the game here: http://pioneersofflight.si.edu/content/tuskegee-airmen-flight-leader

Books about the Tuskegee Airmen

  • Who were the Tuskegee Airmen? By Sherri L. Smith
  • The Tuskegee Airmen by Sarah E. De Capua.
  • You can Fly: the Tuskegee Airmen by Carole Boston Weatherford
  • Red Tail captured, Red Tail free : memoirs of a Tuskegee airman and POW by Alexander Jefferson
  • The Red Tails : World War II’s Tuskegee Airmen by Steven L. Jones
  • Tuskegee Airman : the biography of Charles E. McGee : Air Force fighter combat record holder by Charlene E. McGee Smith 
  • Tales of Famous Heroes by Peter and Connie Roop
  • Black Wings : courageous stories of African Americans in aviation and space history by Von Hardesty
  • Black Knights: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen by Thomas Reilly & Lynn M. Homan
  • Dreaming Eagles by Garth Ennis & Simon Coleby (graphic novel / fiction)

    • DVDs

  • The Tuskegee Airmen
  • Red Tails
  • The Tuskegee Airmen

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