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

text American wings : Chicago's pioneering Black aviators and the race for equality in the sky

Smith, Sherri L.

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"--

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 st... Read more
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Description
376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024
MARC Permalink

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Woodmere (Main Branch) YA 629.13 SMI in New YA Materials Available
Peninsula Community Library YA 920 SMI in Young Adult Collection Reshelving

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