he became one of the first black pilots in America. Now, he tells the audience, he is about to do something no Negro has ever done before. He will fly an airplane “clear across the United States ...

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Early 20th-century America didn’t offer many career paths ... rare in the U.S. immediately following World War I, and Black ...

BLACK HELICOPTERS ARE A FAVORITE FANTASY when ... Says Allen Cates, an Air America pilot who flew one in 1973: "When you saw a person, it was like looking at a photo negative.

Coleman has not been forgotten in the decades since her death. For a number of years starting in 1931, black pilots from Chicago instituted an annual fly over of her grave. In 1977 a group of ...