servient roles. This type of attitude and apathy on behalf of the federal government and military officials, sparked anger in many black leaders, the press, and white supporters. The pressure was put on President Franklin D. Roosevelt to take positive actions in the utilization of Negroes in the armed services. On September 27, 1940, President Roosevelt along with the Assistant Secretary of Robert P. Patterson, and Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox met with three black leaders. Phillip A. Randolph, Walter White, and T. Arnold Hill, was to consider the roles of blacks in the armed services. Following the conference, the War Department developed a policy that stated, "All Negroes would be used in proportion to the total population of the armed services" . It further stated that this "policy was not to intermingle colored and white enlisted personnel in the same organizations" . The War Department stated that "the black leaders supported, had agreed with the policy" . Consequently, black leaders
             across the nation were outraged. Black leaders issued a statement to the war department that they did not support a segregated unit. They also stated the "Official approval by the commanding Chief of the Army and the Navy of such discrimination and segregation was a stab in the back to democracy" . President Roosevelt rebutted the statement by the war department which plain for the activation of segregated airfield and a black flying unit was made, which was to be constructed in Tuskegee, Alabama. On March 21, 1941 the 99th pursuit Squadron was activated as an experiment of the war department. The Tuskegee Airmen, were the only African - American pilots to fight in World War II. In 1941, the 99th Fighter Squadron was established in Tuskegee, Alabama to train black pilots for the War effort, military brass expected the "Tuskegee Experiment" Participants to prove themselves unfit for anything but the lowest ranks of military service. Ther...