Once the world
was young

For I was twenty and
very old

And you and I knew all
the answers

What the day was, how
the hours would turn

One dial was there
to see

Now the world is old
and I am still young

Fro the young know
nothing, nothing.

~Anne Bethel Spencer

Harlem Renaissance Poetess Anne B. Spencer was the mother of aviation pioneer Chauncey E. Spencer. Chauncey was instrumental in the formation of the famed Tuskegee Airmen of World War II fame. He and a friend, Dale White, flew a rented plane from Chicago to Washington, DC to meet with members of Congress, including future President Harry S Truman, in an effort to have African-Americans included in the U. S. Army Air Corps as full fledged pilots.