Sink or Swim

By Carole Boston Weatherford

Subjects: United States. Life-Saving Service, Juvenile literature, Biography, African Americans, African American lifeboat crew members, United States, Lifesaving stations, History

Description: Tells the story of the U.S. Lifesaving Service, which was the precursor of the Coast Guard, and its only all black crew, operating off Pea Island on the North Carolina coast, led by Richard Etheridge.