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| Movie poster, The Flying
Ace, 1923 slide negative |
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| Curtiss-Wright School,
circa 1931 photo |
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| “One Million Jobs,”
1934 flyer |
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| Anderson-Forsythe transcontinental
flight, 1933 flyer |
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| Joe Louis, William J.
Powell at the Bessie Coleman Aero Club, 1930s photo |
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| Willa Brown letter to
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1941 letter |
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| Gilbert A. Cargill letter
to William H. Hastie, 1942 letter |
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| Double V Campaign, Pittsburgh
Courier, 1942 newspaper article |
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| “Keep Us Flying”
war bonds poster, circa 1942 |
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| “United We Win,”
1943 poster |
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Overcoming Obstacles—
How People Cause Social Change
| Introduction
| Step
1 | Step 2 | Step
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Step 2—Survey African American Aviators' Techniques
for Causing Social Change
In Step 2 you'll learn about the many different techniques that
African Americans (and others) used as they struggled to participate
fully in aviation. The Survey lists 12 items in the Black
Wings Collection that you should look at. (Your teacher may
want you to study just a few of the items or all 12.) Across
from each item, write how you think it might have helped. (You
may also browse through the Black
Wings Collection.)
- Study the chosen items in the Black Wings Collection,
then complete the "Overcoming
Obstacles" Survey.
- Read
NASM curator Von Hardesty's comments about the chosen
items. He answers the same question you have answered in
the Survey, How does this item show how African Americans
(and others) worked to remove obstacles to full participation
in aviation?
- After you complete the "Overcoming Obstacles" Survey,
discuss what you've discovered. Of these techniques
for removing obstacles to full participation in aviation,
which impress you most? Which ones do you think were most
powerful? Most controversial? Most risky?
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