Blue Skies, Black Wings

Blue Skies, Black Wings
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780313083600
ISBN-13 : 0313083606
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Book Synopsis Blue Skies, Black Wings by : Samuel L. Broadnax

Download or read book Blue Skies, Black Wings written by Samuel L. Broadnax and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 17, Samuel L. Broadnax—enamored with flying—enlisted and trained as a pilot at the Tuskegee Army Air Base. Although he left the Air Corps at the end of the Second World War, his experiences inspired him to talk with other pilots and black pioneers of aviation. Blue Skies, Black Wings recounts the history of African Americans in the skies from the very beginnings of manned flight. From Charles Wesley Peters, who flew his own plane in 1911, and Eugene Bullard, a black American ace with the French in World War I, to the 1945 Freeman Field mutiny against segregationist policies in the Air Corps, Broadnax paints a vivid picture of the people who fought oppression to make the skies their own.


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