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National Air and Space Museum: The Black Wings Story WebsiteNational Air and Space Museum: The Black Wings Story Website
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution
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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Websites
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National Air and Space Museum: The Black Wings Story

Curated by ACT

This online story tells of how African Americans overcame enormous obstacles to break into aviation. Besides tracing the story there are primary sources, classroom activities, and teaching resources are included.

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Concepts

african americans

Additional Tags

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Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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