The Hallelujah Flight

By Phil Bildner

Subjects: Flight, Flight, fiction, Biographical fiction, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Transcontinental flights, Historical fiction, Air pilots, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction

Description: In 1932, James Banning, along with his co-pilot Thomas Allen, make history by becoming the first African Americans to fly across the United States, relying on the generosity of people they meet in the towns along the way who help keep their "flying jalopy" going.