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- In the year prior to entering World War II, the still-segregated United States military agreed to train Black pilots for the first time. The Tuskegee Airmen, as they became known, became symbols of courage to the nation, taking on Hitler in Europe, and Jim Crow back home.
- In 1946, former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt took over the Chairpersonship of the UN's Commission on Human Rights. Two-and-a-half years later, the first document declaring human rights for everyone passed the UN General Assembly without a single nation opposed.