Physical Description:print vii, 241 p. [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: "This is where you ride" -- 1: Use of Negro manpower in war -- 2: Black Eagles take flight -- 3: Experiment -- 4: Combat on several fronts -- 5: Trials of the 477th -- 6: Integrating the Air Force -- Epilogue: "Let's make it a holy crusade all around."
J. Todd Moye is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Oral History Program at the University of North Texas. A historian of the American civil rights movement, he directed the National Park Service's Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project from 2000 to 2005. He was a consultant on the Lucasfilm documentary about the Tuskegee Airmen, "Double Victory."