The Airline Time Machine Podcast

Warren Wheeler and The First Black-owned U.S. Airline

February 6, 2025·19 min
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During the first fifty years of air travel in the United States, the airline industry - as a service provider, and as an employer - is largely focused on White people. Black Americans are usually locked out of many airline jobs until long after the 1940s, and Black households have little exposure to air travel, both because of the high cost, and the segregated nature of many airport facilities. In a 1976 magazine article I found while doing background work for this podcast episode, a Black ai...

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