You are a member of a team of young newspaper reporters from Chicago in the early 1940’s, a time in which America was embattled in World War II.  Under pressure from a black pilot Airman's Association, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri sponsored a bill to allow black pilots to serve in a civilian pilot training program.   Although it took almost a year and a half, an "experimental" all black fighter squadron called the 99th Pursuit was finally formed by the War Department at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Tuskegee, Alabama.  Your team has been assigned to follow the experiment and report on the Tuskegee Airmen.  

 In this quest, you will wear “two hats.”  First, you will travel to Tuskegee as a group of white reporters from the Chicago Tribune and report on the Tuskegee experiment from that vantage point.  Later, you will travel as black reporters from the Chicago Daily Defender, a black owned and operated newspaper.

As you travel from Chicago deeper into the South, you notice that German Prisoners of War were allowed to ride in your train car while black military personnel were told to move back to the last car. You are now in the World War II era -  the 1940's.  Segregation is still a major issue, particularly in the South.