Moton Field
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- I love flying! I am good friends with the famous female pilot Amelia Earhart.
- These boys are good pilots. I had the fun of going up in one of the tiny training planes with the head instructor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt thought women and African Americans should learn to fly to. She was very interested in the Civilian Pilot Training Program. (p. 22)
- Daily NewsMarch, 1941: Chief and the First Lady
- Eleanor Roosevelt stopped at Tuskegee's airfield. She wrote in a column about her trip that the training was in full swing. (p. 23)
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- Chief Charles Anderson takes Eleanor Roosevelt in one of the training planes. She loved seeing this interesting countryside from the air. (p. 23)
- A picture of Chief Charles Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt smiling from the cockpit of his plane made newspapers across the country. (p. 23)
- Through Eleanor Roosevelt, a charitable fund lent $175,000 for a bigger airfield at Tuskegee. (p. 24)
- It was called Moton Field, after the second president of Tuskegee Institute, Robert Moton. (p. 24)
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