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You can fly the Tuskegee Airmen

This history in verse celebrates the story of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneering African-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrier.

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Main Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- (Author)
Other Authors: Weatherford, Jeffery Boston (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2016]
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, African American > Juvenile poetry.
African American air pilots > History > Juvenile poetry.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American > Juvenile poetry.
Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.) > Juvenile poetry.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Western Front > Juvenile poetry.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Head to the Sky
  • The Civilian Pilot Training Program
  • Train Ride to the Clouds
  • A Shot
  • The First Cadets
  • Officers
  • The Odds
  • Keep 'Em Flying: Tuskegee Army Airfield Nurses
  • Ground School
  • Solo, At Last
  • Sugar, Sugar
  • The Other War
  • Downtime
  • Training Planes
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Dorie Miller Earns the Navy Cross
  • Private Joe Louis
  • Fighting Boredom
  • Second Lieutenant
  • William Henry Hastie
  • The Double V Campaign: Pens Mighty as Swords
  • Anxious
  • Fight Song
  • Facing the Enemy
  • Operation Prove Them Wrong
  • Routines
  • Lena Home: More than a Pin-Up
  • Red Tail Angels
  • The Black Birdmen
  • Your Record
  • No Hero's Welcome
  • A Long Line.

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