Freeman Field Mutiny

• Several of the Tuskegee Airmen risked court martial and execution and refused to sign the reprimand. The Airmen call this "the Freeman Field Mutiny."

• Later, the convictions of the Tuskegee Airmen were overturned.

• Some historians believe this is the first significant protest in the Civil Rights movement that soon followed.

• Partially as a result of the performance of the Tuskegee Airmen, President Truman, on July 26, 1948, signed Executive Order 9981, desegregating the United States Military.

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