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The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown
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The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown Paperback - 2007

by Theodore Taylor

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A stirring biography of America's first black Naval aviator, by a master storyteller and bestselling, award-winning author.

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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.

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  • Title The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown
  • Author Theodore Taylor
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Bluejacket B
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2007-02-20
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781591148524 / 1591148529
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.88 x 5.99 x 0.84 in (22.56 x 15.21 x 2.13 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Officers, African American fighter pilots
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006027778
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Scitech Book News, 06/01/2007, Page 148

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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.

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