Black Knights: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen

by Lynn M. Homan, Thomas Reilly, Lynn Homan

Book Overview

What became known as the Tuskegee Experience began in 1931 with a letter from the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to the War Department asking that blacks be allowed to join the military. The efforts of early African American aviators, the struggle of organizations and individuals against the military's segregation policies, and the hard work of thousands of young men and women, military and civilian, black...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565548280
• ISBN13: 9781565548282
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"