Jesse Leroy Brown (1926-1950)
Jesse Leroy Brown, the Navy’s first aircraft pilot, was also the first African American pilot killed in the Korean War. Born October 13, 1926 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, he was one of the five children of John Brown, a sharecropper, and schoolteacher Alice Brown. An all-around … Read MoreJesse Leroy Brown (1926-1950)