Turbulence Before Takeoff: The Life & Times of Aviation Pionerr Marlon Dewitt Green
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (569 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1934980676 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 420 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Midwest Book Review said The life story of this remarkable man and his accomplishments resisting racism and discrimination. Marlon DeWitt Green did for African-Americans in aviation what Rosa Parks did with respect to bus travel. He was a former U.S. Air Force pilot who pioneered and litigated the right for African-American pilots to fly commercial aircraft. It took a long and expensive court battle against racist airline hiring policies that was to finish with a unanimous landmark U.S. Supreme Court d
--Tia Lyons, El Dorado News-Times . Now Green's life and courageous struggle have been documented in the passionate new book, Turbulence Before Takeoff. Supreme Court to become a commercial airline pilot at a time when no black pilots were being considered for work at major U.S. In 1963, El Dorado Arkansas native Marlon DeWitt Green presented a case before the U.S. airlines
Flint Whitlock, a Pulitzer nominee historian, currently lives in Denver. He and his wife have three grown children
Turbulence Before Takeoff is the inspiring story of Marlon DeWitt Green, a successful Air Force pilot who became the first black pilot hired by a passenger airline, but only after years of struggle that ended with a unanimous, landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in his favor. Paralleling Captain Green's saga are unforgettable stories from the 1950s and 1960s, when the battle for civil rights nearly tore America apart, and unforgettable characters like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luthers King, Jr., and a tireless law