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Blue Skies, Black Wings

Posted on by Samuel L. Broadnax

Publisher : Greenwood

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Page : 180 pages

Rating : 4.5/5 from voters

Looks at the lives and accomplishments of African Americans involved in aviation, including Charles Wesley Peter who flew his own plane in 1911 and Eugene Jacques Bullard, the first African American combat pilot who was one of two hundred Americans who fl

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