Stories of Progress and Racial Equality Allowed to Fly, Soar at Pasadena Playhouse
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER , now making its West Coast premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse, tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen " the first African-American Army Air Corps fighters " whose monumental efforts as World War II combat pilots helped lead to the official desegregation of the military in 1948 and were a touchstone in the shaping of the nascent Civil Rights Movement. When Ricardo Khan, Fly's director and …