Robbins, IL Airport  (1931) 

 

The first airport built, owned and operated by African-Americans in the United States. It is also the true beginnings of the now famous Tuskegee Airmen. Ten original Tuskegee Airmen came from Robbins, IL 

(John C. Robinson, "The Brown Condor of Ethiopia"  a 1924 Tuskegee graduate is pictured here standing on the far right end)