AMERICAN WINGS

Sherri L. Smith & Elizabeth Wein writing together

Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky

The incredible true story of a determined group of young men and women: how, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, they formed the National Airmen’s Association of America, integrated the Federal Civil Pilot Training Program, and gave wings to the Tuskegee Airmen.

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Ravensbrück Rabbits

The names of the 74 Polish women subjected to medical experimentation at Ravensbrueck.

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