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Smith, Sherri L.
Subjects
Aeronautics -- United States -- History.
Aeronautics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Private flying -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Societies, etc. -- History -- 20th century.
Air pilots, Black -- Biography.
Air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Aeronautics, Commercial -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Blacks -- Biography.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
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Smith, Sherri L.
Aeronautics -- United States -- History.
Aeronautics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Private flying -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Societies, etc. -- History -- 20th century.
Air pilots, Black -- Biography.
Air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Aeronautics, Commercial -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Blacks -- Biography.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
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American wings : Chicago's pioneering Black aviators and the race for equality in the sky / Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein.
by
Smith, Sherri L.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2024.
Call #:
629
.130922
S659aw
Subjects
Aeronautics -- United States -- History.
Aeronautics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Private flying -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Societies, etc. -- History -- 20th century.
Air pilots, Black -- Biography.
Air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Aeronautics, Commercial -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Blacks -- Biography.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
ISBN:
9780593323984
Description:
376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Prologue: a dream takes flight -- Pre-flight, Detroit, 1927 -- Ground school, 1927-1929 -- Taking off, 1929-1933 -- Climb, 1933-1934 -- Ethiopia, 1935 -- The airways part, 1936-1937 -- The defender flyers, 1938 -- The moonshot, 1939 -- The love story of Cornelius R. Coffey, 1939-1940 -- The Tuskegee tussle, 1940-1941 -- Wings of war, 1941-1945 -- Touching down, 1946 and beyond -- Epilogue: to the stars.
Summary:
A nonfiction account of a group of determined Black Americans who created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago's South Side in the period between World Wars I and II.
Genre:
Biographies.
Other authors:
Wein, Elizabeth.
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Young Adult Black Nonfiction
629.130922 S659aw
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Jul 20, 2024
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Young Adult Black Nonfiction
629.130922 S659aw
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