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America’s Black Eagles — Part 1 : Clipped Wings
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Can blacks fly airplanes and fight? The answer to this odious question would come from the creation of the only all-Black air force ever established by the U.S. military. This program from Tony Bro...
Can blacks fly airplanes and fight? The answer to this odious question would come from the creation of the only all-Black air force ever established by the U.S. military. This program from Tony Brown's Journal reviews this dark period in racial relations and the black community's response to a segregated "separate but equal" policy of the Army Air Corps.
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- Creator
- Tony Brown Productions
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Place of publication not identified] : Tony Brown Productions, [1983]
- ©1983
- New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2018
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1 video file (26 min., 52 sec)) : sound, color
- digital
- video file
- OCLC
- on1082400172
- Originally released by Tony Brown Productions, 1983.
- Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on December 18, 2018.
- Streaming video file.
- Closed-captioned.
- Red Tails (5:22); Prologue: America's Black Air Force (3:48); Racial Hatred (3:13); World War II (4:06); Civilian Pilot Training Program (3:56); 99th Pursuit Squadron (5:52); Credits: America’s Black Eagles — Part 1: Clipped Wings (0:13)