- Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
- Title:
- Rick Jones oral history interview, 2017-05-14
- Creator:
- Jones, Rick
- Contributor to Resource:
- Drummond, Traci
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2017-05-14
- Subject:
- Race relations
Air traffic control
Airlines
African Americans--Employment
Labor Unions - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Rick Jones was born in 1943 in Washington, D.C. He attended McKinley Technical High School. He worked for the Federal Aviation Administration as an air traffic control supervisor from 1967 until 1994. While at the FAA, Jones helped create the Coalition of Black Controllers. After leaving the FAA, Jones worked as a consultant and training engineer until 2005. In 1995, he began an aviation youth program called Let's Go Up to the 21st Century.
In this interview, Rick Jones discusses his childhood and education, particularly how they were influenced by race. He also discusses how he became an air traffic controller and his career in that line of work. He discusses how race relations affected his work at the FAA and led him to create the Coalition of Black Controllers. He concludes the interview by discussing the consulting/training work he has done in retirement and his youth aviation program, Let's Go Up to the 21st Century. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/labor/id/6718
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Jones, Rick, interviewed by Traci Drummond, May 14, 2017, African Americans in Transportation Oral History Project, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 04:45:07
- Original Collection:
- African Americans in Transportation Oral History Project
Southern Labor Archives - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
