Description: Ortlepp looks at African American passengers; civil rights organizations; the federal government and judiciary; and airport planners, architects, and managers as actors in shaping aviation's legal, cultural, and built environments. This new study situates itself in the scholarly debate over the multifaceted entanglements of "race" and "space."
Brief description: ANKE ORTLEPP is a professor of British and American history at the University of Kassel. Her books include Germans and African Americans: Two Centuries of Exchange, coedited with Larry A. Greene.
Review Quotes: In this major contribution to historical scholarship on racial segregation on public transportation, historian Ortlepp mines a variety of archival materials, including government records, newspapers, oral histories, and civil rights organizational records, to explore a lesser-known chapter in the struggle for desegregation. . . . Ortlepp convincingly underscores how airport terminals became sites of protest as members of the NAACP and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) fought to participate equally in the consumption of air travel.--L. D. Harris "CHOICE"