The National Air and Space Museums web site offers the
teacher guide African American Pioneers in Aviation:
1920-Present as well as free teacher resource materials,
online activities for students, and information about school
Organization of Black Airline Pilots (OBAP)
Information about OBAPs goals and programs, and useful
NASAs Aeronautics Learning Laboratory for Science Technology
and Research (ALLSTAR). Encouraging all students, especially
minority students, to study and pursue the Aeronautics discipline.
Presents a detailed teacher resource guide with lessons on aeronautical
history, principles, and careers.
The ALLSTAR Learning Laboratory offers a small collections of
pictures of blacks in aviation from the National Archives and
NASA Online Resources for Educators.
The Tuskegee Airmen International site offers a history of the
Tuskegee experience and photographs of the planes the airmen
flew. It also lists local chapters of the organization.
The National Park Service site provides historical information
on individual Tuskegee Airmen, an overview of the program, and
information on this new Park Service site at Tuskegee Institute
that will commemorate the airmens experience.
The Real African American Heroes site offers information on
astronauts and other aviators.
The AFRO-Americas Black History Museum site has a section
entitled The Tuskegee Airmen: The Sky Was the Limit
which includes information on African American war correspondents
in World War II and on Tuskegee and other African American.
Visit the PBS web site The Black Press: Soldiers Without
Swords to explore the history of four newspapers and to
learn about the men and women who helped shape the history of
the black press. This site also contains Double V
BOOKS FOR ADULTS
Astor, G. The Right to Fight: A History of African
Americans in the Military. California: Presidio Press,
Davis, B. O., Jr. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American:
An Autobiography. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution,
Hardesty, V., and D. Pisano. Black Wings: The
American Black in Aviation. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
Jakeman, R. The Divided Skies: Establishing
Segregated Flight Training at Tuskegee 1934-1942. Alabama:
University of Alabama Press, 1992.
Powell, W. Black Aviator: The Story of William
J. Powell. Edited by V. Hardesty. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
Rich, D. Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1993. (This biography
is a good choice for middle school students as well.)
BOOKS FOR STUDENTS
Cooper, M. The Double V Campaign: African Americans
in WW II. New York: Lodestar Books, Penguin Putnam, Inc.,
Hart, P. Flying Free: America's First Black
Aviators. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1992.
Lindbergh, R. Nobody Owns the Sky: The Story
of Bessie Coleman. Massachusetts, Candlewick Press, 1998.
McKissack, P., and F. McKissack. Red-Tail Angels:
The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen. New York: Walker &
Sakurai, G. Mae Jemison: Space Scientist.
New York: Childrens Press, 1998.