the Story of Virgil Richardson, a Tuskegee Airman in Mexico.
Ben Vinson
New York
Palgrave Macmillan
2006
(215 pages)
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: From the Eyes of an Historian; Chapter One: Virgil: Before the War; Chapter Two: In the Army Now; Chapter Three: Days at Tuskegee; Chapter Four: From Tuskegee Back to War; Chapter Five: Atlantic Sound; Chapter Six: A Soldier's Homecoming; Chapter Seven: Bienvenidos à México; Chapter Eight: From Tourist to Resident--Being Black in Mexico City during the 1950s; Chapter Nine: Livin' and Workin' the Mexico City Scene; Chapter Ten: New York Interlude; Chapter Eleven: Transitions--Back in Mexico during the 1960s; Chapter Twelve: Border Crossings. Epilogue: Black American Yankees on Montezuma's SoilNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index.
Virgil Richardson has blazed his own unique trail through the 20th century: a cofounder of Harlem's American Negro Theater and radio personality in 1930s, a World War II pilot, and an expatriate through much of the last 50 years. In "Flight," this remarkable man tells the story of his life in his own vivid words.