- Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
- Title:
- Roger McDonald oral history interview, 2017-04-13
- Creator:
- McDonald, Roger
- Contributor to Resource:
- Drummond, Traci
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2017-04-13
- Subject:
- Air traffic control
African Americans
Race relations
Travel
World War, 1939-1945 - Location:
- Asia, 29.84064, 89.29688
Europe, 48.69096, 9.14062
United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Roger McDonald was born in Tuskegee, Ala. in 1924. McDonald was drafted into the military at age 18. He served during World War II in Europe and Asia. After his military service, McDonald worked as a postal service employee. He later became an air traffic controller. He also trained air traffic controllers for a short period of time towards the end of his career. McDonald fully retired in the 1990s.
In this interview, Roger McDonald discusses his childhood and his early love of airplanes. He spends a large portion of the interview discussing his time in the military during World War II. He discusses much of his traveling and his cohort during his military service. McDonald discusses many of his years in the air traffic control system including his jobs and issues he had with his employers. He concludes the interview by discussing his family and hobbies. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/labor/id/6722
- 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: McDonald, Roger, interviewed by Traci Drummond, May 15, 2017, African Americans in Transportation Oral History Project, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 06:17:02
- Original Collection:
- African Americans in Transportation Oral History Project
Southern Labor Archives - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
