(Born 6 September 1903, Newport, Arkansas, US)
FIRM, determined, resilient, self-taught aviator after admission-rejections from flying schools because he is African America, co-founder with his wife Willa Brown of Chicago’s Coffey aeronautical school (1938) which soon becomes part of the country’s civilian pilot training programme and trains many African American pilots and technicians who later pursue careers in both civil aviation and the military, continues flying well into his 80s
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(Tina Brooks Sextet, “Back to the tracks” [personnel: Brooks, tenor saxophone; Blue Mitchell, trumpet; Jackie McLean, alto saxophone; Kenny Drew, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Art Taylor, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, US, 1 September 1960)
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