CT History NewsToday in #Connecticut History, February 24: Hartford’s First Black Policeman Also Became the First of the Famed Tuskegee Airmen.
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February 24: Hartford’s First Black Policeman Also Became the First of the Famed Tuskegee Airmen.
The Tuskegee Airmen are celebrated today both as war heroes and as the first Black aviators in American military service. With American involvement in World War II looming, 13 men entered tr…