{"product_id":"blue-skies-black-wings-samuel-l-broadnax-9780803217744","title":"Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers of Aviation","description":"At the age of seventeen, Samuel L. Broadnax, enamored with flying, enlisted and trained as a pilot at the Tuskegee Army Air Base. Although he left the Air Corps at the end of the Second World War, his experiences inspired him to talk with other pilots and black pioneers of aviation. \u003ci\u003eBlue Skies, Black Wings\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the history of African Americans in the skies from the very beginnings of manned flight.\u003cbr\u003eFrom Charles Wesley Peters, who flew his own plane in 1911, and Eugene Bullard, a black American pilot with the French in World War I, to the 1945 Freeman Field mutiny against segregationist policies in the Air Corps, Broadnax paints a vivid picture of the people who fought oppression to make the skies their own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel L. Broadnax\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803217749\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803217744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.43d","brand":"Samuel L. Broadnax","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051813007615,"sku":"9780803217744","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_37ea06a0-92da-4161-9e74-99ada0b03f2e.jpg?v=1685015318","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blue-skies-black-wings-samuel-l-broadnax-9780803217744","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}