Research Catalog

Title

Distinguished African Americans in aviation and space science / Betty Kaplan Gubert, Miriam Sawyer, and Caroline M. Fannin.

Author

Gubert, Betty Kaplan, 1934-

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Oryx Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sawyer, Miriam.
• Fannin, Caroline M.

Description

xv, 319 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.

Summary

A look at the lives and careers of 80 men and 20 women who defied poverty and prejudice to excel in the fields of aviation and space exploration.

Series Statement

Distinguished African Americans series

Uniform Title

Distinguished African Americans series

Subjects

• Biographies
• collective biographies
• USA
• Schwärze
• Flugzeugführer
• Astronaut
• African American astronauts > Biography
• African American air pilots > Biography

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-304) and index.

Contents

Allen, George W. -- Allen, Thomas C. -- Anderson, C. Alfred -- Archer, Lee A., Jr. -- Banning, J. Herman -- Barnett, Earsly -- Barnett, F. Carl -- Bluford, Guion S., Jr. -- Bolden, Charles F., Jr. -- Bostic, Ruby L. -- Bragg, Janet Harmon Waterford -- Brown, Jesse Leroy -- Brown, Jill E. -- Brown, Roscoe C., Jr. -- Brown, Willa -- Brown, William E., Jr. -- Bullard, Eugene Jacques -- Burns, Isham A. "Rusty" -- Cagle, Yvonne -- Carruthers, George R. -- Cherry, Fred V. -- Coffey, Cornelius -- Coleman, Bessie -- Cowings, Patricia S. -- Crockett, Woodrow W. -- Curbeam, Robert L., Jr. -- Custis, Lemuel R. -- Darby, Dorothy -- Darden, Christine Mann -- Davis, A. Porter -- Davis, Benjamin O., Jr. -- DeBow, Charles H., Jr. -- Deiz, Robert W. -- Driver, Elwood T. -- Dryden, Charles W. -- Dwight, Edward J., Jr. -- Ericsson-Jackson, Aprille -- Esquerre, Jean R. -- Forsythe, Albert E. -- Freeman, Louis L. -- Gibbs, Edward A. -- Gillam, Isaac T., IV -- Gomer, Joseph P. -- Goodman, Robert O., Jr. -- Green, Marlon D. -- Greene, John W., Jr. -- Gregory, Frederick Drew, Sr. -- Hall, Charles B. -- Harris, Bernard A., Jr. -- Harris, David E. -- Harris, Marcelite J. -- Harris, Wesley L. -- Haynes, Joseph H. -- Hollis, Michael R. -- Hutcherson, Fred, Jr. -- Jackman, Melva -- Jackson, Lewis A. -- James, Daniel "Chappie," Jr. -- Jemison, Mae C. -- Jones, Willie "Suicide" -- Julian, Hubert F. -- Knighten, James B. -- LaGrone, Roy E. -- Lawrence, Robert H., Jr. -- Lester, Clarence D. -- Loving, Neal V. -- Marchbanks, Vance H., Jr.

ISBN

• 1573562467
• 9781573562461

LCCN

2001034821

OCLC

• ocm47013254
• 47013254
• SCSB-1238884

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library