Los Angeles: Authors Unlimited, (1988). First edition - The author's first book, one which focuses on nine Black leaders in the decades of the Depression and World War II, and before the current civil rights era. Includes brief biographies of Mary McLeod Bethune, A Phillip Randolph, Paul Robeson, Richard Wright, and others - as well as a chapter on the 99th Fighter Squadroon and the 332nd Fighter Group. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography. 176 pp. ISBN: 1-556660324.