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You Can FlyYou Can Fly

You Can Fly

Carole Boston Weatherford

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I WANT YOU! says the poster of Uncle Sam. But if you’re a young black man in 1940, he doesn’t want you in the cockpit of a war plane. Yet you are determined not to let that stop your dream of flying. So when you hear of a civilian pilot training program at Tuskegee Institute, you leap at the chance. Soon you are learning engineering and mechanics, how to communicate in code, how to read a map. At last the day you’ve longed for is here: you are flying!

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OL Work ID
OL17335929W

Subjects

African American Historymilitary historyflyingBlack Historyjuvenile non-fictionpilotsjuvenile literatureAfrican American air pilotsCampaignsAfrican American ParticipationAmerican Aerial operationsWorld War, 1939-1945Juvenile poetryUnited States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99thUnited StatesHistoryAfrican americans, poetryChildren's poetry

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