Jeremy's Journey through Jacksonville looking for leaders , volume 1: Alton Yates, American warrior
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Library.2276
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45 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Jeremy's Journey through Jacksonville looking for leader, volume 1, Alton Yates an American Warrior
Just leadership, volume 1
Alton Yates an American Warrior
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Alton Yates enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in1955, where he participated in numerous Aerospace Research experiments during the initial days of America's Space Program. He helped organize civil rights demonstrations, and in August 1960, ended up in the middle of a civil rights clash that pitted white men with ax handles and baseball bats against unarmed black youths that came to be known as Ax Handle Saturday.
...Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame Society, Inc.
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Book
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Other Documents
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Documentary Objects
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Category 08: Communication Objects
Search Terms
African American men -- Biography., African American leadership -- Florida -- Jacksonville., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Authors., Yates, Alton, 1936- -- Juvenile literature., Airmen -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature., African American civil rights workers -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
