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[https://www.npr.org/2022/02/18/1080731249/segregated-skies-tells-the-story-of-the-first-black-pilot-for-a-commercial-airli by Elizabeth Blair 18/2/22 npr]
[https://www.npr.org/2022/02/18/1080731249/segregated-skies-tells-the-story-of-the-first-black-pilot-for-a-commercial-airli by Elizabeth Blair 18/2/22 npr]
  When American Airlines hired David Harris in 1964, he became the first African American pilot for a commercial airline. The story of how he broke the color barrier in the clouds is the subject of the young adult book Segregated Skies by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cottman.
  When American Airlines hired David Harris in 1964, he became the first African American pilot for a commercial airline. The story of how he broke the color barrier in the clouds is the subject of the young adult book Segregated Skies by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cottman.
=====When Minneapolis Segregated=====
[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-08/mapping-the-segregation-of-minneapolis by Greg Miller 8/11/20 Bloomberg]
Before it was torn apart by freeway construction in the middle of the 20th century, the Near North neighborhood in Minneapolis was home to the city’s largest concentration of African American families. That wasn’t by accident: As far back as the early 1900s, racially restrictive covenants on property deeds prevented African Americans and other minorities from buying homes in many other areas throughout the city.