Invisible Wings: An Annotated Bibliography on Blacks in Aviation, 1916-1993

by Betty Kaplan Gubert

Overview

Invisible Wings is the only reference book on Blacks in aviation. More than 1,600 entries give the bibliography the scope and length that will enable scholars, researchers, and students to delve into this little studied aspect of the Black experience. This annotated bibliography includes citations on pilots, flight attendants, air traffic controllers, mechanics, doctors, engineers, scientists, astronauts, and others whose achievements in aeronautics, commerical and military, are unrecognized. The first four chapters highlight the major figures, and the next five chapters annotate books and articles on airlines, Chicago, discrimination, history, and women. The work covers three quarters of the twentieth century from 1916 to 1993, with one of the earliest articles describing the world's first Black pilot, Eugene J. Bullard, and one of the most recent covering the first African American in space, Guion S. Bluford.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313285530
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/05/1994
Series:	Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Studies , #32
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

BETTY KAPLAN GUBERT had been head of the General Research and Reference Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library for twenty-one years when she retired in 1991. She is the editor of Early Black Bibliographies, 1863-1918 (1982) and author of numerous articles in the field of Black Studies. She is currently the art editor of MultiCultural Review and consults on various publishing projects.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes to the User
The Pioneers
Eugene J. Bullard
Bessie Coleman
Other Individuals and Events
Between World Wars
Thomas C. Allen and J. Herman Banning
C. Alfred Anderson and Albert E. Forsythe
Hubert F. Julian
John C. Robinson
Willa B. Brown
Cornelius R. Coffey
William J. Powell
James L.H. Peck
Chauncey E. Spencer
Other Individuals and Events
World War II and After
The Tuskegee Airmen
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Daniel James Jr.
World War II
Frank E. Petersen Jr.
Other Individuals and Events
Astronauts and Space Scientists
Edward J. Dwight
Robert H. Lawrence Jr.
Ronald E. McNair
Charles E. Bolden Jr.
Guion S. Bluford Jr.
Frederick D. Gregory
Mae C. Jemison
NASA
Other Individuals and Events
Airlines
Chicago
Discrimination
History
Women
List of Pilots
Index

Editorial Reviews

An annotated bibliography comprising 1,615 entries, including citations on pilots, flight attendants, air traffic controllers, mechanics, doctors, engineers, scientists, astronauts, and others whose achievements in aeronautics, commercial and military, are unrecognized. The first four chapters highlight the major figures, and the next five chapters annotate books and articles on airlines, Chicago, discrimination, history, and women. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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