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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: American wings
    sub title: Chicago's pioneering Black aviators and the race for equality in the sky
  name:
    name part: Smith, Sherri L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Wein, Elizabeth
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  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: juvenile
  note: Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Notable Children's Trade Book/Social Studies, 2025.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: n-us-il
  subject:
    topic: African American air pilots
    genre: Biography
    genre: Juvenile literature
  subject:
    topic: Air pilots
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
    genre: Juvenile literature
  subject:
    topic: Aeronautics
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Juvenile literature
  subject:
    topic: Private flying
    geographic: Illinois
    geographic: Chicago
    topic: Societies, etc
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Juvenile literature
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Juvenile literature
  subject:
    topic: Air pilots
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Aeronautics
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Aeronautics, Commercial
    geographic: Illinois
    geographic: Chicago
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
    topic: History
  classification: TL539 .S633 2024
  classification: 629.13092
  identifier: 9780593323984
  identifier: 059332398X
  identifier: 9780593324004
  identifier: 2023022245
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230602
    record change date: 20250620131406.2
    record identifier: in00005645928