Thomas Hawkins served and died in World War II, part of the elite group of African American pilots known as Tuskegee Airmen.

In 1941, a segregated airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama, was selected as the primary flight training facility for black pilot candidates in the United States military.   They were known as the ...

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...