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Last year, the film “Red Tails” shined a light on the oft-forgotten story of the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-black group of fighter pilots during World War II. Despite the inspirational story, many were a bit perturbed by the lack of black women in the film. While black women were an integral part of that time period and supported their husbands, sons, brothers, and other men in the war effort, their stories have been overlooked, until now.
Gregory S. Cooke, producer and director the forthcoming documentary “Invisible Warriors,” aims to tell the story the black women during the World War II era. Inspired by his mother, who worked in the U.S. Patent Office during the war, Cooke set out to document the plight of black women like his mother during that time.
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