Robnor Publishing is  based in Washington, D.C.  We are partially owned by Tuskegee Airmen and specialize in memoirs and biographies by and about historic American figures.  We are selling two books that were written in conjunction with Tuskegee Airmen - Curtis Christopher Robinson and Charles Flowers.  The first book is titled – A Pilot’s Journey, the second book is titled Training the Best. 

A Pilot's Journey - Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman is  a story about Curtis Christopher Robinson, a former fighter pilot with the 99th Fighter Squadron and an award winning, Washington, D.C. pharmacist.  It is also a journey into 250 years of Robinson’s family’s history.  He is the surviving member of a family of siblings born between 1910 and 1919 that produced three military officers during World War II.  We have not found another African-American family in the nation with three army officers during that era.  Mr. Robinson's family story is a personal, informative and insightful view into the origins an evolution of an “original African-American middle class family,” one actually established by former slaves – his grandparents – an during their lifetime.  It covers the period between 1760 through 2007.

Training the Best - Charles Herbert Flowers, Jr. D.P.S. is a story about a man who was the thirteenth cadet to graduate from the pilot training program at Tuskegee, and he graduated number one in his class.  His skills and accomplishments were so impressive that he was assigned to be a full time flight instructor upon completing the program.  Mr. Flowers has the distinction of being the first student government association president at North Carolina Central University; Durham, North Carolina and today he enjoys the honor of having a school, Charles Herbert Flowers High School - in Glenarden, Maryland - named after him.  During the 1940s he performed in air shows in the south after his career as a flight instructor, and later, was a partner in a flight instruction school in North Carolina,.  Eventually, Charles Flowers, Jr. spent a long and successful career at Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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