Name: Tuskegee Airmen, 4th Edition
Brand: Branden Publishing Co (US)
SKU: 9780828320771
Price: 25.99 GBP
Availability: InStock

Tuskegee Airmen, 4th Edition

The Men Who Changed a Nation

By (author): Charles E Francis

Published by Branden Publishing Co (US)

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£25.99

Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
Illustrations: b/w photos & illus
ISBN: 9780828320771
Publication Date: 29-Nov-2002

Subjects:
History of the Americas
Second World War
Black & Asian studies
Air forces & warfare
Aircraft: general interest

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Long before Civil Rights, the Tuskegee Airmen fought for equality. First they integrated the Armed Forces, then a whole nation and did it with competency, skill, valour, and courage in combating the enemy abroad and racism at home. Because they stood tall, African Americans and fellow Americans are the better for it. The book contains over 100 photographs, an appendix full of documents, and an index of 25 pages.

Charles E Francis is a native of Maryland who received a BA in Education and an MA in American History from Howard University. Inducted into the Army Air Corps, he received his basic training in Columbus, Mississippi. He was assigned to Fort Myers, Florida to help to organise the newly constructed Buckingham Army Air Forces Flexible Gunnery School. In 1944, he went to Tuskegee, where he observed and understood the significance and meaning of the Tuskegee revolution.