In this ``masterful, inspiring evocation of an era`` ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review), award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford ``wields the power of poetry to tellthe] gripping historical story`` ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneering African-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrier during World War II.
In vibrant second-person poems, Carole Boston Weatherford teams up for the first time with her son, artist Jeffery Weatherford, in a powerful and inspiring book that allows readers to fly, too..
At last the day you\'ve longed for is here: you are flying From training days in Alabama to combat on the front lines in Europe, this is the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the groundbreaking African-American pilots of World War II.
Soon you are learning engineering and mechanics, how to communicate in code, how to read a map.
So when you hear of a civilian pilot training program at Tuskegee Institute, you leap at the chance.
Yet you are determined not to let that stop your dream of flying.
But if you\'re a young black man in 1940, he doesn\'t want you in the cockpit of a war plane.
I WANT YOU says the poster of Uncle Sam.
In this ``masterful, inspiring evocation of an era`` ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review), award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford ``wields the power of poetry to tellthe] gripping historical story`` ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneering African-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrier during World War II
