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Flying free : America's first Black aviators / by Philip S. Hart ; foreword by Reeve Lindbergh.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection TL521 .H37 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hart, Philip S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American air pilots--Juvenile literature.
- African American air pilots.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 64 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Lerner Publications Company, [©1992]
- Summary:
- Surveys the history of black aviators, from the early black aviation community in Chicago in the 1920s through World War II to modern times.
- Contents:
- The early years
- Bessie Coleman: the inspiration
- William J. Powell: the visionary
- James Herman Banning: the adventurer
- Hubert Fauntleroy Julian: the Black Eagle
- The Chicago Flyers
- The Tuskegee airmen of World War II
- Modern aviation and black flyers.
- Notes:
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 60) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hart, Philip S. Flying free.
- ISBN:
- 0822515989
- 9780822515982
- 0822597276
- 9780822597278
- OCLC:
- 23969954
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