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PDF Book Download A Pair of Wings by Carole Hopson
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A riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woman who learned to fly at the dawn of aviation, and found freedom in the air.A few years after the Wright Brothers? first flight, Bessie was working the Texas cotton ?elds with her family when an airplane flew right over their heads. It buzzed so low she thought she could catch it in her hands. Bessie wasn?t afraid. Without even thinking, she spread my arms out and pretended she was flying. She knew there was freedom in those wings.The daughter of a woman born into slavery, Bessie answers the call of the great migration, moving to Chicago as a single woman. While working as a manicurist in the White Sox barbershop, she wins the backing of two wealthy, powerful Black men, Robert Abbott, the publisher of The Chicago Defender, and Jesse Binga, Chicago?s first Black banker. Abbott becomes her mentor and chronicles her adventures, while the good-looking gun-toting Binga becomes her lover. Her
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