Harold H. Brown (1924–2023)
Författare till Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman
Verk av Harold H. Brown
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Brown, Harold Haywood
- Födelsedag
- 1924-08-19
- Avled
- 2023-01-12
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Dödsort
- Port Clinton, Ohio, USA
- Utbildning
- North High School, Minneapolis
Ohio University (Bx | Mathematics)
Ohio University (PhD | Education) - Yrken
- military pilot [Tuskegee airman]
educator - Relationer
- Bordner, Marsha S. (widow)
Medlemmar
Recensioner
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Statistik
- Verk
- 1
- Medlemmar
- 10
- Popularitet
- #908,816
- Betyg
- 5.0
- Recensioner
- 1
- ISBN
- 2
Meeting someone who made history, as Dr. Brown did being one of the Tuskegee Airmen, is an amazing experience -- heightened even more by our mutual passion for aviation. We shared the boyhood dream of becoming a pilot. What we did not share were the unfair headwinds of a racism that is nearly unimaginable now, more than fifty years downstream from the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Keep Your Airspeed Up brought home the realities of that period of history to me in a way that no other book, movie or even Dr. Brown's own "hangar talks" ever have before. But that was just the beginning of his long career in the Air Force and later in education.
Having shaken history's hand, this book really is the next best thing to being there.… (mer)