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The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown
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 documents and interviews with those who knew Brown, this is both a stirring story of a man breaking historic racial barriers and a thrilling tale of naval carrier aviation and combat.
Book Details
- Publisher: Naval Institute Press
- Publish Date: Feb 20th, 2007
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.88in - 5.99in - 0.84in - 0.95lb
- EAN: 9781591148524
- Categories: • African American & Black• Military• Military - Aviation & Space
About the Author
Taylor, Theodore: - Theodore Taylor was born in North Carolina and began writing at the age of thirteen as a cub reporter for the Portsmouth, Virginia Evening Star. Leaving home at seventeen to join the Washington Daily News as a copy boy, he worked his way toward New York City and became an NBC network sportswriter at the age of nineteen. Mr. Taylor is the author of a dozen books for young readers, among them the award-winning The Cay. He lives in Laguna Beach, California, with his wife, Flora.
Praise for this book
"The author, Theodore Taylor, speaks of Jesse Brown's flight metaphorically as this is his biography of Brown. And what a bio this is! Brown was the naval aviator who was raised poor but well and known as the U.S. Navy's first Afro-American aviator. He was a man who could be anyone's friend and his manner of death in a Corsair during the Marine's retreat from the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War is a tale well worth the telling. Like many, though not enough authors writing history, Taylor brings in the human dimension so readers obtain understanding along with knowledge." --SeattlePi "A compelling portrait of a quiet hero, of the racial climate between 1926 and 1959, and of the last days of propeller-driven naval aviation." -- Booklist