Ruth Bates Mckenzie (3 results)

Condition: very_good. Fast & Free Shipping â" Very Good condition book with a firm cover and clean pages. Shows normal use and some light wear or limited notes markings. A solid, nice copy to enjoy.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: covered - new. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Vantage Press, New York. 1991. 346 pgs. Illustrated with photographs. Signed and inscribed by Ruth Bate McKenzie on the half-titile page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Autobiography of a woman who was the daughter of a black numbers banker in Harlem in the 1920's, who became the highest ranking woman at NASA. Includes a tribute to the heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen and a first hand account of the Freeman Field Incident where 101 black flying officers were arrested and charged with mutiny. She also tells of her son's struggle with AIDS and of her personal accomplishments and disappointments. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…