- Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
- Title:
- Ed Forsythe oral history interview, 2017-05-17
- Creator:
- Forsythe, Ed
- Contributor to Resource:
- Drummond, Traci
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2017-05-17
- Subject:
- Air traffic control
African Americans
Air pilots
Race relations
Travel - Location:
- United States, California, 37.25022, -119.75126
United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
United States, New York, 43.00035, -75.4999 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Ed Forsythe was born in 1929 in Los Angeles. For his entire youth he moved back and forth between New York and California. He was a model airplane aficionado. Forsythe served in the Air Force and attended radiator operating school in Mississippi. He was trained by the Air Force in Texas and sent to Lackland Air Force Base for pre-flight training. Forsythe was trained as an air traffic controller at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City. He worked for the New York Center and Washington D.C. headquarters as an air traffic controller until his retirement in 1988.
In this interview, Ed Forsythe focuses on his youth for a great portion of the interview. He discusses moving back and forth between his grandparents in New York and California as a child. He discusses both locations, his education in both areas, and race issues in both areas. Forsythe discusses his Air Force training, radar operational training, flight training, and air traffic control training. Throughout the interview, he discusses the various ways in which his racial identity have affected his life. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/labor/id/6723
- 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: Forsythe, Ed, interviewed by Traci Drummond, May 17, 2017, African Americans in Transportation Oral History Project, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 04:08:04
- Original Collection:
- African Americans in Transportation Oral History Project
Southern Labor Archives - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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