Memories Of The Unexpected - The Story of a Tuskegee Airman (Paperback)

Raised during the height of the Depression, devastated and ostracized by the death of his beloved older brother, Tuskegee Airman Milton Holmes believed that education was the ticket out of his stifling, poverty-stricken South Baltimore community. This endearing story tell of a journey that unexpectedly lands him in the military during World War II for pilot training. He became embittered by a nation whose discriminatory eyes had been on the very African American men who helped protect it. Armed with the childhood influence of his father, along with the principles and training as a Tuskegee Airman that helped shape his life, he soon focused his eyes on the nation that had shunned them. He resolved to advance the cause of the disenfranchised and poor with a clenched fist, while promoting the collective strength to combat oppression of all people with grace and compassion.