Distinguished African Americans in Aviation and Space Science

BETTY KAPLAN GUBERT is the compiler of Invisible Wings: An Annotated Bibliography on Blacks in Aviation, 1916-1993 (Greenwood 1994), among other bibliographies. Formerly head of reference services at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, for 21 years, she is the subject specialist in art for MultiCultural Review, and has had several articles published in such journals as African Arts, American Libraries, Judaica Librarianship, and in scholarly reference works such as American National Biography, Encarta Africana, and the Encyclopedia of New York City.MIRIAM SAWYER is director of the Rutherford Public Library, Rutherford, NJ. She received her B.A. from Ohio University and her MLS from State University of New York at Albany. She has written numerous articles for library publications, and was editor of New Jersey Libraries, the official publication of the New Jersey Library Association, 1994-1996. At present she is a regular reviewer for MultiCultural Review, a periodical published by Greenwood.CAROLINE M. FANNIN is a writer and library administrator. She received a bachelor's degree in writing and literature from Wheaton College, and a master's degree in library service from Rutgers University. Her previous collaborations have covered topics ranging from abortion and capital punishment to the works of Flannery O'Connor.

• Preface Introduction Profiles Allen, George W. Allen, Thomas C. Anderson, C. Alfred Archer, Lee A., Jr. Banning, J. Herman Barnett, Earsly Barnett, F. Carl Bluford, Guion S., Jr. Bolden, Charles F., Jr. Bostic, Ruby L. Bragg, Janet Harmon Waterford Brown, Jesse Leroy Brown, Jill E. Brown, Roscoe C., Jr. Brown, Willa Brown, William E., Jr. Bullard, Eugene Jacques Burns, Isham A. "Rusty" Cagle, Yvonne Carruthers, George R. Cherry, Fred V. Coffey, Cornelius Coleman, Bessie Cowings, Patricia S. Crockett, Woodrow W. Curbeam, Robert L., Jr. Custis, Lemuel R. Darby, Dorothy Darden, Christine Mann Davis, A. Porter Davis, Benjamin O., Jr. DeBow, Charles H., Jr. Deiz, Robert W. Driver, Elwood T. Dryden, Charles W. Dwight, Edward J., Jr. Ericsson-Jackson, Aprille Esquerre, Jean R. Forsythe, Albert E. Freeman, Louis L. Gibbs, Edward A. Gillam, Isaac T., IV Gomer, Joseph P. Goodman, Robert O., Jr. Green, Marlon D. Greene, John W., Jr. Gregory, Fredrick Drew Hall, Charles B. Harris, Bernard A., Jr. Harris, David E. Harris, Marcelite J. Harris, Wesley L. Haynes, Joseph H. Hollis, Michael R. Hutcherson, Fred, Jr. Jackman, Melva Jackson, Lewis A. James, Daniel "Chappie," Jr. Jemison, Mae C. Jones, Willie "Suicide" Julian, Hubert F. Knighten, James B. LaGrone, Roy E. Lawrence, Robert H., Jr. Lester, Clarence D. Loving, Neal V. Marchbanks, Vance H., Jr. Martin, August McIntyre, Dorothy Layne McNair, Ronald E. Morris, Leslie A. Nash, Grover C. Newton, Lloyd W. "Fig" Ng, Marcella A. Norwood, William R. Peck, James L.H. Petersen, Frank E., Jr. Plinton, James O., Jr. Powell, William J. Pruitt, Wendell O. Purnell, Louis R. Roberts, George S., Sr. Robinson, Brenda E. Robinson, John C. Robinson, Ted W. Ross, Mac Smith-Dunn, Ida Van Spencer, Chauncey Stovall, Emmett Taylor, Carol Terry, Roger C. Tilmon, James A., Sr. Tyus, Shirley Washington, Patrice Clarke Watson, Douglas C. Watson, George, Sr. Wheeler, Warren H. Whitehead, John L., Jr. Williams, Oswald S., Jr. Young, Perry H., Jr. Bibliography Index