Eleanor Roosevelt meets Cecil Peterson, 1941
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Eleanor Roosevelt meets future Tuskegee Airmen, Cecil Peterson, on her visit to Quoddy Village, Maine. Quoddy Village was home to the National Youth Administration, a WPA project that offered work experience to high school students impacted by the Depression. This image is of a photograph that Peterson sent Roosevelt to later reminisce on their first meeting.
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"Finally we went out to the aviation field, where a Civil Aeronautics unit for the teaching of colored pilots is in full swing. They have advanced training here, and some of the students went up and did acrobatic flying for us. These boys are…