Mr. A's Minute: Episode XIV, Part III: The Diligence of the Tuskegee Airmen In this week's Mr. A's Minute, we are continuing our series on the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement by looking at the story of the Tuskegee Airmen. Thanks in no small part to the heroism and courage of the Harlem Hellfighters in World War I, by 1941, African Americans were permitted to fight in the infantry as part of the American military. However African Americans were still thought to be unable to fly a plan