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Willa Brown Chappell co-founded the National Airmen’s Association of America, an organization whose mission was to get African Americans into the United States Air Force. In 1940, she and her first husband, Lieutenant Cornelius R. Coffey started the Coffey School of Aeronautics, where some of the approximately 200 pilots who trained there eventually became “Tuskegee Airmen.”
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