Milton Crenchaw is the last living supervising squadron commander flight instructor of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen. Crenchaw was part of the 66th Army Air Forces Flight Training Detachment and one of the first black pilots trained by the U.S. government.
Crenchaw was surrounded by civil rights activism as a child. His father, Rev. Joseph C. Crenchaw, was a local civil rights leader with the NAACP. Crenchaw enrolled at Tuskegee Institute in 1939 to study mechanical engineering, but after training in the pilot program and getting his license, he left school to train hundreds of Tuskegee Airmen pilots from 1941 to 1946.
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