One day after Continental Airlines named a 737 after Captain Marlon Gray, who became the first African-American pilot hired by a major US airline, American Airlines unveiled its "Black History in Aviation" online museum.
(If you're wondering about the influx of US airlines honoring African-Americans, February is African-American History month in the US.)
One of the profiled individuals is Captain David Harris, who AA says "was the first African American in the cockpit for a major passenger airline". That seems to contradict Continental's claim, but Continental was the first to hire an African-American pilot (the pilot, Marlon Green, eventually joined in 1966) while AA was the first to have an African-American pilot fly.
Here's a video of Captain Harris discussing his career and life now.
(If you're wondering about the influx of US airlines honoring African-Americans, February is African-American History month in the US.)
One of the profiled individuals is Captain David Harris, who AA says "was the first African American in the cockpit for a major passenger airline". That seems to contradict Continental's claim, but Continental was the first to hire an African-American pilot (the pilot, Marlon Green, eventually joined in 1966) while AA was the first to have an African-American pilot fly.Here's a video of Captain Harris discussing his career and life now.
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