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Flight : the story of Virgil Richardson, a Tuskegee airman in Mexico / Ben Vinson.
- Title
- Flight : the story of Virgil Richardson, a Tuskegee airman in Mexico / Ben Vinson.
- Author
- Vinson, Ben.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E745 .V56 2004 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Richardson, Virgil, 1916-2004
- Description
- x, 204 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Tells the story of Virgil Richardson, co-founder of Harlem's American Negro Theater, radio personality in the 1930s, World War II pilot, and an expatriate through much of the last fifty years.
- Subject
- Richardson, Virgil, 1916-
- United States. Fighter Group, 332nd
- United States. Army Air Forces > Airmen > Biography
- United States. Army Air Forces > African Americans > Biography
- 1900-1999
- World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American
- Actors > United States > Biography
- African American actors > Biography
- African Americans > Mexico > Biography
- United States > History > 20th century
- Mexico > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-200) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- From the eyes of an historian -- Virgil: before the war -- In the army now -- Days at Tuskegee -- From Tuskegee back to war -- Atlantic Sound -- A soldier's homecoming -- Bienvenidos à México -- From tourist to resident: being black in Mexico City during the 1950s -- Livin' and workin' the Mexico City scene -- New York interlude -- Transitions: back in Mexico during the 1960s -- Border crossings -- Epilogue : Black American Yankees on Montezuma's soil.
- ISBN
- 1403966184 (hc : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2004044539
- OCLC
- 54694657
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library