; Whereas Alain Locke, the first Black Rhodes Scholar, wrote in 1925 about a New Negro who had returned from battle with a bold new spirit that helped spark a new mood in the Black community; Whereas in 1917, Charles Hamilton Houston encountered racism after entering World War I as a commissioned first lieutenant in the segregated 17th Provisional Training Regiment, later writing that I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back. ; Whereas Dorie Miller, a messman attendant in the Navy, was catapulted to national hero status and an icon to generations, after displaying heroism on board the USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; Whereas before becoming a famous baseball player, Jackie Robinson was court-martialed in the Army for refusing to sit in the back of the bus in 1944, and when he was later acquitted, he wrote that [i]t was a small victory, for I had learned that I was in two wars, one against the foreign enemy, the other against prejudice at home. ; Whereas the famed Tuskegee Airmen, a group of Black pilots, flew with distinction during World War II under the command of Captain Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the highly decorated officer who served for more than 35 years and became the first Black general in the Air Force; Whereas during World War II, the 6888 (known as the Six Triple Eights ), the first all-woman Black Postal Battalion who served in England and then France, were given the daunting task of clearing out a 2-year backlog of over 90,000 pieces of mail, succeeded in their mission, completed it in 3 months, and went on to make a positive impact on racial integration in the military