Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
6-1/4 hours
I have been reading the book Flygirl.
The book is mainly about a black woman name Ida Mae Jones who loves flying but
since she's black no one wants to give her a flying license since she is
black and also a woman. But Ida Mae has heard of this place in Chicago where
they have given licenses to many blacks and many women so she has been a
housemaid at many houses trying to earn enough money to get a bus ticket to go
there. Suddenly in the middle of what seemed to her to be a pretty average day
the Japanese bombed Hawaii. Luckily it didn't effect her or her family since
they live in Georgia. Since the U.S. Is now recruiting for the army her older
brother decides to go be a doctor and help the countless soldiers. And the news
all that is going on has really bummed out Ida Mae so she decides to go into
the military as well.
The only reason she decided to go into
the service was because her little brother showed her an news article saying
that the military needs women pilots. So Ida Mae secretly sent in a request to
join and then they said she was scheduled for an appointment with the
recruiter. When she finally decided to "come clean" her mom and
grandfather were very concerned but the let her do it. Now since Ida Mae had
light brown skin if she wore the right clothes and acted the right way she
could pass as a white woman so when it came time for the interview she did
exactly that, mostly because she wasn't sure if they would let a black woman
in. Luckily she was accepted into the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
and so she is now off to the WASP training facility.
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