Mary McLeod Bethune was a passionate educator and presidential advisor. In her long career of public service, she became one of the earliest black female activists that helped lay the foundation to the modern civil rights movement.
It was only in the wake of Executive Order 8802, and a presidential directive issued directly to the Corps, that the Marines began setting up a new segregated training facility for African American recruits at Montford Point, North Carolina. One of the first recruits was Edgar Cole.
Medgar Evers was one of more than a million African Americans who served in the US military during World War II. He returned home only to face daily discrimination and paid the ultimate price for his fight against inequality.
A restored P-51 Mustang in US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center is the Museum's tribute to a pioneering aviator.
Join The National WWII Museum and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History as we explore World War II as a catalyst of the modern civil rights movement.
America's WWII military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazism, it also managed to unify a famously fractious American people. At least that's the story many Americans have long told themselves.
Divisions offers a decidedly different view.
Join The National WWII Museum for this webinar highlighting the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, a battalion made up of over 800 African American women during World War II.
Fly tells the story of four African American Tuskegee Airmen and their fight on two fronts to achieve Double Victory during World War II.