Bibliograph

American wings, Chicago's pioneering Black aviators and the race for equality in the sky, Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein

Type

Label

American wings, Chicago's pioneering Black aviators and the race for equality in the sky, Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American wings

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein

Sub title

Chicago's pioneering Black aviators and the race for equality in the sky

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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of 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

Target audience

adolescent

Classification