| Description |
1 online resource |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Audience |
Ages 7 years and up G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
African American air pilots -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Air pilots -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Aeronautics -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
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Private flying -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Societies, etc. -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
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| Added Author |
Wein, Elizabeth, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Sherri L. American wings New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2024] 9780593323984 (DLC) 2023022245 |
| ISBN |
9780593324004 |
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0593324005 |
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