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Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown - Blue Jacket Books
Author: Theodore Taylor
Jesse Leroy Brown was born in 1926 to sharecroppers in the segregated South. An outstanding student and top athlete, he set his sights on becoming a Navy pilot despite the resistance of his family and the rampant Jim Crow laws. Brown went on to become the first black man to fly a Navy fighter and make a carrier landing. Based on archival docum...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781591148524
ISBN-10: 1591148529
Publication Date: 2/15/2007
Pages: 300
Edition: 1st Bluejacket Books
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Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Book Type: Paperback
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