Remember Eleanor’s meeting for the Rosenwald Fund? After her flight, the First Lady arranged for a loan to build Moten Field in Tuskegee, where the soldiers could complete their first phase of training. And because Randolph’s Executive Order 8802 forbade discrimination in awarding defense contracts, Black-owned construction firm McKissack and McKissack won the contract to build a state-of-the-art training facility. Using a design by African American architect Hilyard Robinson, labor from two thousand of those Black public works employees that Bethune had lobbied for, and the funds from Public
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