Red Tails

A 1925 Army War College report concluded that the “Negro man was immoral, mentally inferior to whites, profoundly superstitious, had less capacity for learning, and was a coward in darkness,” according to the press notes for “Red Tails.”

Recently the filmmaker George Lucas of “Star Wars” fame produced two films about the Tuskegee Airmen, an all African American flying squadron that was created in 1941 at the Tuskegee Institute, a private college in Alabama.