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American wings : 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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Smith, Sherri L. (Author), Wein, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2024].
Subjects:
African American air pilots > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Air pilots > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Aeronautics > United States > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
Private flying > Illinois > Chicago > Societies, etc. > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
Air pilots.
African Americans > Biography.
Aeronautics > History.
Aeronautics, Commercial > Illinois > Chicago.
United States > Race relations > History.
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.