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SUMMARY:2023 Lecture Series - with Flint Whitlock
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n“Turbulence Before Takeoff:The Life & Times of Aviation Pioneer Marlon DeWitt Green”\nThe untold story of how Marlon Green defied an entrenched\, segregated airline industry.\nFree with admission.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”6326″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_shadow_border”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \n 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.  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”6327″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_shadow_border”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nFlint 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”. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://coahs.org/event/2023-lecture-series/
LOCATION:Forney Museum of Transportation\, 4303 Brighton Blvd\, Denver\, CO\, 80216
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