Filter By Subjects
African American authors African American fighter pilots African American women authors African Americans Armed Forces African Americans Aviadores Estados Unidos Teatro Domestic drama Estados Unidos. Air Force Afronorteamericanos Teatro Military operations, Aerial American United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99th.Filter By Authors
Hansberry, LorraineFilter By Subjects
African American authors African American fighter pilots African American women authors African Americans Armed Forces African Americans Aviadores Estados Unidos Teatro Domestic drama Estados Unidos. Air Force Afronorteamericanos Teatro Military operations, Aerial American United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99th.Filter By Authors
Hansberry, LorraineSummary: Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Hansberry, Lorraine
Summary: A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Library 1995
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of the 'Fighting 99th' - the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. It is 1943 and the U.S. is suffering huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when black flyers were not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, the "Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010