Tuskegee Airmen and Beyond: The Road to Equality - Couverture rigide

Styles, David G.

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ISBN 10 : 1854432583 ISBN 13 : 9781854432582

Editeur : Dalton Watson, 2013

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Dr. David Styles is a published Aviation-Automotive historian with twenty-one books to his credit and over thirty international awards for his writing over thirty years. His first book, a 504-page automotive volume, As Old As The Industry – Riley (a Society of Automotive Historians Cugnot Award winner) and a Dalton Watson title still in print. His most recent book, Two Flights to Victory was published in the autumn of 2011 and the core story of The Tuskegee Airmen and Beyond is drawn from this narrative of the Tuskegee Airmen’s initiation into combat in the 12th Air Force, then the 15th Air Force, both commanded by Major General Jimmy Doolittle. Out of his series of lectures on the topic of Two Flights to Victory and the Doolittle Raid, David Styles first prepared a paper on the subject of the Tuskegee Airmen, then expanded it to become a lecture about The Tuskegee Airmen and Beyond for presentation in Black History Month. The success of those lectures encouraged him to go much deeper into the story of the African American struggle and this book is the result of those researches.
In California, Dr. Styles has lectured to audiences on board the USS “Hornet”, as well as at the Haggin Museum in Stockton, Castle Air Museum at Atwater and the California State Military Museum in Sacramento. He has also lectured to the Royal Aeronautical Society in Great Britain. He served with the Royal Air Force and is a Vice-President of Naval Eight/208 Squadron Association. Dr. Styles is also Aviation Historian to the California State Military Museum. His other aviation writings include All the Eights – Eight Decades of Naval Eight/208, Doolittle Tales and Two Flights to Victory, as well as many published articles in such journals as Air Power History.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This book begins its story almost four hundred years ago, when the first twenty African slaves were landed in Virginia. It then traces the African American quest for freedom and liberty, through participation in military conflict, from the days of the Revolutionary War to the 21st Century. It follows the struggle for liberty from slavery, when, in the Civil War, some 200,000 African American slaves and free men fought on both sides in return for the promise of freedom for all. A few achieved this, but the abolition of slavery did not give them equality. The Spanish-American War came next, followed twenty years later by the “Great War”, where over five hundred African American soldiers were awarded the Croix de Guerre, France’s highest award for valor, yet only one was awarded the Medal of Honor by the United States – seventy-three years after his death on the battlefield.

World War II brought the first all-black-crewed fighter squadron, the 99th, followed by the 332nd Fighter Group, the most highly decorated group of men in their theaters of war. These men were the catalyst of political change to bring desegregation to the Armed Forces, by means of President Harry Truman’s Executive Order 9981, which preceded the Civil Rights Act by twenty years. Since President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Civil Rights Act into law, there have been great, but faltering, steps forward. African Americans have finally risen to the top in their chosen careers – four-star generals, astronauts and ultimately an African American President. This book is that story.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dalton Watson
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1854432583
• ISBN 13: 9781854432582
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304