Name: Tuskegee Airmen
Brand: Branden Publishing Co (US)
SKU: 9780828321891
Price: 40.99 GBP
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Tuskegee Airmen

The Men Who Changed a Nation - 5th Commemorative Edition with Class Pictures

By (author): Charles E Francis

Published by Branden Publishing Co (US)

In Stock

£40.99

Format: Hardback
Pages: 559
Illustrations: 100 b/w photos
ISBN: 9780828321891
Publication Date: 01-Dec-2008

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History: specific events & topics

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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.

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.