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Up in the air : the story of Bessie Coleman / by Philip S. Hart.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection TL540.C646 H37 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hart, Philip S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coleman, Bessie, 1892-1926--Juvenile literature.
- Coleman, Bessie.
- Coleman, Bessie, 1896-1926.
- Coleman, Bessie, 1892-1926.
- African American women air pilots--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American women air pilots.
- Air pilots--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Air pilots.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Women--Biography.
- United States.
- Afro-American author.
- Afro-American setting.
- Local Subjects:
- Afro-American author.
- Afro-American setting.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 80 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, Inc., [©1996].
- Summary:
- Presents the story of Bessie Coleman, an American, who in 1920 traveled to France to become the first black woman to earn a pilot's license.
- Contents:
- Dreaming of Flying
- On to Europe
- The Barnstorming Life
- Flying High in Florida
- Afterword: The Inspiration.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 78) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has receipt from Visions 3000 Bookstore laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0876149492
- 9780876149492
- 0876149786
- 9780876149782
- OCLC:
- 32820924
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