“Turbulence Before Takeoff:The Life & Times of Aviation Pioneer Marlon DeWitt Green”
The untold story of how Marlon Green defied an entrenched, segregated airline industry.
Free with admission.
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2023 Lecture Series – with Flint Whitlock
February 18, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
In 1963, Marlon DeWitt Green, an Arkansas-born African American and former U.S. Air Force pilot, broke the airline industry color barrier when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Continental Airlines had to comply with the State of Colorado’s anti-discrimination laws—there being no conflict with any federal statute—and required that the company hire him. He has been described as the “Jackie Robinson of the airline industry” for overcoming discrimination to become the first black pilot hired by a regularly scheduled commercial passenger airline.
Flint Whitlock is a full-time military historian, editor of WWII Quarterly, and 2021 inductee into the Colorado Authors Hall of Fame. He is on the board of directors at the Broomfield Veterans Museum and is the author of two books about Colorado Army units in World War II: “Soldiers on Skis” and “The Rock of Anzio”.