Flight Officer Lawrence A. (Bubba) Brown (1909-2012) was involved in the Red Tail Project of the Tuskegee Airmen. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1942 and spent World War II serving in a segregated unit in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. He was a flight officer and one of the original Tuskegee Airmen. He was wounded in Italy and spent 18 months recovering in Army hospitals. After his discharge, he worked in the Minnesota Department of Revenue as a tax auditor. From 1966 to 1968, as an accountant, he helped set up an income tax withholding system in Uganda, East Africa under a contract with the United States Agency for International Development. He was one of the three original founders of the Ronald McDonald House in Minneapolis, which opened its first house in 1979. He was a volunteer coach and mentor at the Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House and also tutored in the Minneapolis Public Schools.