{"product_id":"blue-skies-black-wings","title":"Blue Skies, Black Wings","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the age of 17, Samuel L. Broadnax—enamored with flying—enlisted and trained as a pilot at the Tuskegee Army Air Base. Although he left the Air Corps at the end of the Second World War, his experiences inspired him to talk with other pilots and black pioneers of aviation. \u003ci\u003eBlue Skies, Black Wings\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the history of African Americans in the skies from the very beginnings of manned flight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Charles Wesley Peters, who flew his own plane in 1911, and Eugene Bullard, a black American ace with the French in World War I, to the 1945 Freeman Field mutiny against segregationist policies in the Air Corps, Broadnax paints a vivid picture of the people who fought oppression to make the skies their own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54220087656792,"sku":"9780275991951","price":49.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/blue-skies-black-wings","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}