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An Auburn University student organization dedicated to the advancement of minorities in aviation and aerospace careers is showing the community that aviation students arenât just good at flying planes. Theyâre also good people.Â
For the last two years, the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals, or OBAP, has been working hard to develop relationships with aviation and aerospace professionals, and with community organizations in need of help.
âIâm so proud of the organizationâs growth,â OBAP President Asia Anchrum said. âWe have definitely been a staple in the community by providing a presence for minorities from the aviation industry.â
Nearly 30 years before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the “I Have A Dream” speech from the nation’s capital, Army Lt. William Powell shared his own dream for America: one where Black people shed the shackles of racism and spread their wings to fly.
The former Army infantryman fell in love with aviation during his stint overseas in World War I and in 1932 became one of the rarest people in the United States: a Black man with a pilot s license.
Powell’s semi-autobiographical book Black Wings, published in 1934, exhorted Black youth to seize the freedom and opportunity of air travel as he did.