Distinguished African Americans in Aviation and Space Science

by Betty Kaplan Gubert, Miriam Sawyer, Caroline M. Fannin

Overview

Distinguished African Americans in Aviation and Space Science offers brief, readable entries that describe the lives and careers of 80 men and 20 women who defied poverty and prejudice to excel in the fields of aviation and space exploration. Each essay begins with birth and death dates, educational institutions attended and degrees earned, positions held, and awards won. A short summary of the individual's contribution to aviation or space science is followed by a biographical narrative divided into three sections: Early Years, Higher Education, and Career Highlights. Often based on the authors' correspondence with the subjects themselves, or with family members, this illustrated volume provides the fullest and most accessible biographical information available for many of these figures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781573562461
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/30/2001
Series:	Distinguished African Americans Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.81(d)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

BETTY KAPLAN GUBERT is the compiler of Invisible Wings: An Annotated Bibliography on Blacks in Aviation, 1916-1993 (Greenwood 1994), among other bibliographies. Formerly head of reference services at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, for 21 years, she is the subject specialist in art for MultiCultural Review, and has had several articles published in such jourbanals as African Arts, American Libraries, Judaica Librarianship, and in scholarly reference works such as American National Biography, Encarta Africana, and the Encyclopedia of New York City.

MIRIAM SAWYER is director of the Rutherford Public Library, Rutherford, NJ. She received her B.A. from Ohio University and her MLS from State University of New York at Albany. She has written numerous articles for library publications, and was editor of New Jersey Libraries, the official publication of the New Jersey Library Association, 1994-1996. At present she is a regular reviewer for MultiCultural Review, a periodical published by Greenwood.

CAROLINE M. FANNIN is a writer and library administrator. She received a bachelor's degree in writing and literature from Wheaton College, and a master's degree in library service from Rutgers University. Her previous collaborations have covered topics ranging from abortion and capital punishment to the works of Flannery O'Connor.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Profiles
Allen, George W.
Allen, Thomas C.
Anderson, C. Alfred
Archer, Lee A., Jr.
Banning, J. Herman
Barnett, Earsly
Barnett, F. Carl
Bluford, Guion S., Jr.
Bolden, Charles F., Jr.
Bostic, Ruby L.
Bragg, Janet Harmon Waterford
Brown, Jesse Leroy
Brown, Jill E.
Brown, Roscoe C., Jr.
Brown, Willa
Brown, William E., Jr.
Bullard, Eugene Jacques
Burbans, Isham A. "Rusty"
Cagle, Yvonne
Carruthers, George R.
Cherry, Fred V.
Coffey, Cornelius
Coleman, Bessie
Cowings, Patricia S.
Crockett, Woodrow W.
Curbeam, Robert L., Jr.
Custis, Lemuel R.
Darby, Dorothy
Darden, Christine Mann
Davis, A. Porter
Davis, Benjamin O., Jr.
DeBow, Charles H., Jr.
Deiz, Robert W.
Driver, Elwood T.
Dryden, Charles W.
Dwight, Edward J., Jr.
Ericsson-Jackson, Aprille
Esquerre, Jean R.
Forsythe, Albert E.
Freeman, Louis L.
Gibbs, Edward A.
Gillam, Isaac T., IV
Gomer, Joseph P.
Goodman, Robert O., Jr.
Green, Marlon D.
Greene, John W., Jr.
Gregory, Fredrick Drew
Hall, Charles B.
Harris, Bernard A., Jr.
Harris, David E.
Harris, Marcelite J.
Harris, Wesley L.
Haynes, Joseph H.
Hollis, Michael R.
Hutcherson, Fred, Jr.
Jackman, Melva
Jackson, Lewis A.
James, Daniel "Chappie," Jr.
Jemison, Mae C.
Jones, Willie "Suicide"
Julian, Hubert F.
Knighten, James B.
LaGrone, Roy E.
Lawrence, Robert H., Jr.
Lester, Clarence D.
Loving, Neal V.
Marchbanks, Vance H., Jr.
Martin, August
McIntyre, Dorothy Layne
McNair, Ronald E.
Morris, Leslie A.
Nash, Grover C.
Newton, Lloyd W. "Fig"
Ng, Marcella A.
Norwood, William R.
Peck, James L.H.
Petersen, Frank E., Jr.
Plinton, James O., Jr.
Powell, William J.
Pruitt, Wendell O.
Purbanell, Louis R.
Roberts, George S., Sr.
Robinson, Brenda E.
Robinson, John C.
Robinson, Ted W.
Ross, Mac
Smith-Dunn, Ida Van
Spencer, Chauncey
Stovall, Emmett
Taylor, Carol
Terry, Roger C.
Tilmon, James A., Sr.
Tyus, Shirley
Washington, Patrice Clarke
Watson, Douglas C.
Watson, George, Sr.
Wheeler, Warren H.
Whitehead, John L., Jr.
Williams, Oswald S., Jr.
Young, Perry H., Jr.
Bibliography
Index