John William Mosley Jr. (June 21, 1921 – May 22, 2015) was an American football player and combat bomber pilot in the United States Army Air Forces.

Born June 21, 1921, in Denver, Colorado, John William Mosley was the son of a Cripple Creek silver rush settler.

He also became the first African American to earn an athletic letter in Colorado State University football team history.

Additionally, he broke the color barriers off the field when he was elected class vice president in both his junior and senior years.

After graduation, Mosley was drafted into a segregated Army Artillery unit stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

[2] While at Fort Sill, he began to write many letters to command and Washington, D.C. requesting to be reassigned to the Tuskegee Airmen.

He chose to return to the states as a civilian in 1946 to earn his master's degree in Social Work from the University of Denver in 1948.

His role was to integrate the military and armed forces through the civil rights activities that took place in the United States.

[10] After being in the Tuskegee Airmen, John Mosley joined the Federal government to continue being a civil rights activist.

He later married his high school friend Edna Wilson-Mosley, a prominent politician, civil rights activist, and educator.

[11] John Mosley served as a special assistant to the undersecretary in the Department of Health and Human Services when he and his wife moved to Aurora Colorado and was transferred to the Lowry Air Force Base.

[16] During the second World War, John W. Mosley tried to join the air camp of the United States Tuskegee Airmen is not just a flight school to learn how to fly but also a great motivator for anybody with a dream that is never too big.

The requirements for this scholarship include: one must be African American, have a desire to further their education in a University, College or another accredited post-secondary school and must have accumulated a GPA of 2.5 of higher.