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[Image: Herbert Carter, an elderly Black man, standing in a dark red jacket, smiling and holding a hand drawn sketched of a young, smiling Black woman - his wife - in a flight uniform with goggles atop her head.] glockgal: Tuskegee’s historic love story Herbert Carter, 94, one of the original 33 Tuskegee Airmen pilots, holds a portrait of his wife, Mildred Hemmon Carter, in her flight uniform. She was the first black female pilot in Alabama and is counted among the history-making Tuskegee Airmen, too. He eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Married nearly 70 years, the two were known as Tuskegee’s “first couple.” *flails*

[Image: Herbert Carter, an elderly Black man, standing in a dark red jacket, smiling and holding a hand drawn sketched of a young, smiling Black woman - his wife - in a flight uniform with goggles atop her head.]

glockgal:

Tuskegee’s historic love story

Herbert Carter, 94, one of the original 33 Tuskegee Airmen pilots, holds a portrait of his wife, Mildred Hemmon Carter, in her flight uniform. She was the first black female pilot in Alabama and is counted among the history-making Tuskegee Airmen, too. He eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Married nearly 70 years, the two were known as Tuskegee’s “first couple.”

*flails*

(Source: daughtersofdilla)

4 months ago
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