Yancey Williams, a student at Howard University, filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding that the secretary of war and other U.S. government officials consider his application to become a flying cadet in the Army Air Corps. This legal action challenged the military’s exclusion of African Americans from aviation training and helped pave the way for the eventual formation of the Tuskegee Airmen.
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