Boston honors Tuskegee Airmen, General Woody Woodhouse NECN [Video]

The Boston city council honored the Tuskegee Airmen and General Woody Woodhouse on Wednesday for their efforts in World War II.

The mostly Black military pilots and airmen were pioneers, breaking racial barriers.

The move comes days after the Air Force removed training materials featuring the nearly all Black fighting force to comply with President Donald Trump‘s diversity, equity and inclusion removal order. The move was reversed a short time later.

“It’s a struggle of adversity. In other words, Black people were the only group in America that had to fight to fight,” Woodhouse said Wednesday in Boston. “Doesn’t that sound ironic? But we did it once, and we will do it again.”