How Black officers' stand at an Indiana airfield helped desegregate the military
In April 1945, Black officers of the 477th Bombardment Group at Freeman Field in Seymour were arrested for entering a whites-only officers' club; in the days that followed, 101 more were arrested for refusing to sign an order accepting segregated facilities. The Freeman Field Mutiny became a landmark on the road to President Truman's 1948 order desegregating the armed forces. The same field later evaluated captured German aircraft, jets among them. WWII buildings still stand.