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Destinee Williams

African American Soldiers In World War II Helped Pave Way for Integration of US Military

1. In 1941 African-Americans soldiers proved themselves to the government that they could perform tasks on the same level as white soldiers.

2. It meant victory against the enemy aboard and the enemy at home

3.  During World War II blacks were not aloud to fight on the front line, by the Vietnam War they were.

4.  They had to prove themselves because they were the first black pilots that were protecting Caucasians. 

3 Women Red Tails Left Out

1. With Dr. Bethune being the head of NYA she was able to convince people to hear what she was trying to do for African Americans with aspirations of becoming a pilot.

2. Willa Beatrice Brown she helped prove that black service men earned the equal treatment that they deserved as loyal Americans.

3. Eleanor Roosevelt rode with a black pilot on a plane.

4. These women have been left out of history because they were women let alone black women and around that time blacks and women had no type of authority. They definitely weren't going to give a woman recognition for a movement like this.

Standing Tall on Giant Shoulders: Dovey Johnson Roundtree and her Debt to Mary McLeod Bethune

1. Round Tree met her as a young adult, newly arrived in Washington, D.C. and looking for federal employment after her graduation from Spelman college and 3 years of teaching.

2. Dr. Bethune felt strongly of them that she enlisted her closest political ally, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in the fight to bring black women into the first class of WAAC officers.

3. Dr. Bethune took the African Americans side and First Lady Roosevelt took the opposing side.4. The past 40 years from the time of Mary's death in 1955 to the time Round Tree retired in 1996, she served as general counsel, pro bono, to the National Council of Negro Women, the organization Dr. Bethune founded. Whenever and wherever she spoke she invoked Dr. Bethune's name.

5. Dr .Bethune's impact on Round Tree was she taught her to be an office assistant also by taking her place in the WAAC.