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Chicago's pioneering Black aviators and the race for equality in the sky
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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Notable Children's Trade Book/Social Studies, 2025.