Mississippi Humanities Council Speakers
Bureau topic on The Man Called Brown Condor – The Forgotten History of an African
American Fighter Pilot by Thomas E. Simmons is now available for viewing: http://www.mshumanities.org/index.php/speaker/the_man_called_brown_condor/
Tom Simmons has returned from his
honorary trip to Ethiopia at the request of His Excellency the former
President of Ethiopia Girma Wolde Giorgis, CEO of Ethiopian Air Lines, Ato
Tewolde Gebremariam, and Director of the Pan-African Technical Association
(PATA), Fredric Yaw Davis, to speak and be recognized for his narrative
nonfiction, The Man Called Brown Condor – The Forgotten History of an African
American Fighter Pilot (Skyhorse, 2013).
The occasion: the memorial for the
sixtieth anniversary of Col. John Charles Robinson’s tragic death. The
main event was at an invitation-only reception at the former president’s home
where Simmons was privileged to meet several men who John Robinson had taught
to fly (including the former president himself) and who were among the first to
serve in the new Ethiopian Air Force. “Talking to them, all ninety-years-old or
so, was humbling and thrilling for me. They confirmed to me that I had
gotten the facts of the book right.”
Simmons also had guest speaking engagements
at the American Embassy and to high school students at St. Joseph’s
Academy.
John Robinson, besides being the
commander of the Ethiopian Air Force during the Italo-Ethiopian War, returned
in 1944 at the request of Emperor Haile Selassie to rebuild the Ethiopian Air
Corps and start Ethiopian Air Lines. An incredible man who deserves all the
accolades of a hero of Ethiopia, as well as being a role model to all mankind. www.thomasesimmons.net Published by Skyhorse
Publishing www.skyhorsepublishing.com Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency
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