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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen

Carole Boston Weatherford

Free-verse poems tell of the Tuskegee Airmen, the U.S. military's initial corps of African American aviators. Set in the early and mid-1940s, the poems place readers with young Black men as they train and wait for a reluctant military to send them into combat. The pilots fly bomber-escort missions over Germany while racism continues at home. Scratch-board illustrations draw on archival World War II photographs.

This book appears on 3 reading lists across 2 editions from 3 organizations.

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Themes
History · Poetry · Racism And Prejudice · War And Conflict
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published
July 4, 2017
Pages
96
ISBN-13
9781481449397
Language
English
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