Blue skies, black wings : African American pioneers of aviation

Title
  1. Blue skies, black wings : African American pioneers of aviation / Samuel L. Broadnax ; foreword by Alan M. Osur.
Published by
  1. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.
Author
  1. Broadnax, Samuel L.

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Additional authors
  1. Osur, Alan M., 1941-
Description
  1. xiv, 180 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
  1. At the age of seventeen, 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 pilot 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.
Subject
  1. African American air pilots > Biography
  2. Air pilots > United States > Biography
  3. Aeronautics > United States > History
  4. African Americans > History
  5. Aeronautics
  6. African American air pilots
  7. African Americans
  8. Air pilots
  9. Race relations
  10. Flugzeugführer
  11. United States > Race relations
  12. United States
  13. USA
  14. Schwarze
Genre/Form
  1. Biography
  2. Biographies.
  3. History.
Contents
  1. The early days -- Breaking the barrier -- Training begins -- The selection process -- Learning to fly -- Making changes -- Fighter training -- Changing cockpits -- Combat -- Bomber pilots.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-174) and index.