Tuskegee Airman Fighter Pilot: A Story of an Original Tuskegee Pilot Lt. Col. Hiram E. Mann - Couverture souple

Coggins, Dr. Patrick C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1425147321 ISBN 13 : 9781425147327

Editeur : Trafford Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

This book honors the Tuskegee Airmen, known as the Red Tails who never lost escorted bombers. Read the personal account of a fighter pilot who overcame segregation in Europe and the United States.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Patrick C. Coggins, a native of Georgetown, Guyana, former I.I.E. Scholar completed his Ph.D. and J.D. at the University of Connecticut. Since 1991, he served as the Jessie Ball DuPont Endowed Chair Professor, Founder/Director of the Multicultural Education Institute, Stetson University. In 1997, he became the Eminent Scholar in Residence for Multicultural Studies for Palm Beach County School District. He led a team who developed the District's African and African American History Curriculum Frameworks. Dr. Coggins co-founded the nationally acclaimed Project Harmony which trained over 25,000 youths to positively deal with racial violence in public schools. He is Vice-chair of the Florida Commissioner of Education's Task Force on African American History and member of Holocaust Studies Task Force. He conducts workshops in Managing Cultural Competence and Closing the Achievement Gap. His scholarly works include: Confidentiality of Drug and Alcohol, Fraud Detection and Control, From the Ground Up: Tuskegee Airmen Ground Support Personnel, African American History, HIV-AIDS in the Caribbean and manuals on Cultural Competence, Valuing Cultural Diversity and Closing the Achievement Gap. He received the 2004 FEA Mary McLeod Bethune Human Relations and Civil Rights Award, nominated for 2005 Onyx Magazine Award, and received Honorary Doctorate of Laws for his contributions to the Addictions field in 2004. Since 1997, he has been advocating for honoring the history of the Tuskegee Airmen with joint lectures. He believes that the efforts of these Tuskegee Air personnel were the impetus that nudged the United States of America to integrate the military and provide equal opportunities for all military personnel regardless of race. www.culturalcompetenceassociates.com

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Trafford Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1425147321
• ISBN 13: 9781425147327
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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