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This month in 1972, the Washington Star newspaper exposed the Tuskegee Institute syphilis experiment — a secret study on the effects of untreated syphilis in Black men in Alabama. Learn more: https://comca.st/3f7GA9X | Voices of the Civil Rights Movement

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American combat pilots in U.S. military history. Undeterred by discrimination, these pilots would prove to the world, and themselves, that they belonged alongside the great heroes of American aviation history. In June 1943, these pilots would carry out their first combat operation of the war with the successful strafing of Pantelleria, a small volcanic island in the Mediterranean Sea. This operation was critical in clearing sea lanes in preparation for