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SUMMARY:CHSTM Research Seminar: Flying While Black - The Slow Pace of Rac
 ial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry
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DESCRIPTION:Thanks to Black History Month\, most school-age children in t
 he United States have heard of the Tuskegee Airmen. We celebrate these p
 ioneering aviators’ impressive record fighting racial prejudice at home 
 and enemy fliers in the skies over Europe. Yet few people today realize 
 that none of the roughly 1\,000 African American men who earned their wi
 ngs at Tuskegee Army Airfield during World War II ever had a chance to f
 ly for a major U.S. passenger airline after the war. Even as the postwar
  airline industry took off\, piloted by thousands of white men who had l
 earned to fly in the military\, the airlines flatly refused to hire Blac
 k aviators who possessed the same training and experience as their white
  counterparts. It took the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act\, which 
 outlawed racial discrimination in employment\, to pry open the cockpit d
 oor and allow African American pilots to fly for the airlines. And yet e
 ven today\, a half century later\, only 3 percent of all airline pilots 
 in the U.S. are Black in a nation where more than 13 percent of the popu
 lation self-identifies as African American.\n\nThis presentation\, based
  on Dr Meyer’s current book project titled Flying While Black\, explores
  the slow pace of racial integration of the pilot’s seat in U.S. airline
 s in historical perspective. From Jim Crow racism before\, during\, and 
 after World War II\, and continuing beyond the Civil Rights Act of 1964 
 to the recent past\, the project examines how institutional and structur
 al racism\, economics\, the military establishment\, as well as various 
 cultural factors contribute to the continued low number of Black commerc
 ial pilots in the United States.\n\n<b>Alan D. Meyer</b> is an Associate
  Professor in the Department of History at Auburn University in Alabama 
 and teaches history of technology and aviation history. \n
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LOCATION:2.57 (CHSTM Seminar Room)\, Simon Building\, Manchester
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