Freeman Area Mutiny: How Tuskegee Airmen ended WW2 Military segregation
Stationed in Indiana, 104 Black males determined to combat a distinct battle that may pave the best way of desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces.
The commander of Freeman Area, Col. Robert Selway discovered a loophole and created one membership for ‘teacher supervisors,’ and one membership for ‘trainees.’
The Black officers have been placing their navy careers, security and probably their lives on the road.
INDIANAPOLIS – On April 5, 1945, United States Military Air Forces officer James Warren determined he was going to interrupt the regulation.
The regulation in query? A base regulation at Freeman Area in Seymour, Indiana, the place he was stationed, created separate officers’ golf equipment: one for white officers, one for Black officers. Warren was a part of the 477th Bombardment Group, also called the Tuskegee Airmen.
