
"As a child growing up in Jacksonville, Florida, Alton Yates watched Black veterans return home from fighting for their country, only to have that country turn its back on them. After Alton joined the Air Force and risked his life to make spacecraft and airplane flight safer, he returned home to the same Jim Crow laws. Alton now had a new mission: To make a stand against Jim Crow." -- publisher
Themes & Content
- Genres
- Non-Fiction
- Central Theme Categories
- Biography/Autobiography
- Oppression & Resilience
- Ethnicity
- Unspecified
- Gender Representation
- Boys/Men
- Sexual Orientation / Relationship Representation
- Heterosexual
- Race / Culture
- Black/African/African American
- Character Prominence
- Dominant Main
- Illustrator Lived Experience
- Illustrator shares race/culture with main characters