Storming the heavens : African Americans and the early fight for the right to fly /

The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African-American women shaped the U.S. effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this story and goes further to detail the earlier struggle of Afric...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horne, Gerald (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Black Classic Press, [2018].
Temas:
African American air pilots > History.
Pilotes d'aéronef noirs américains > Histoire.
HISTORY / African American.
African American air pilots.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Taking Off
  • From Ethiopia to Tuskegee
  • From Chicago to Tuskegee to Africa
  • Jim Crow and Colonialism: Up in the Air?
  • Jim Crow and Apartheid: Flying High?
  • More Turbulence
  • Bumpy Landing
  • Index

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