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Welcome to St Louis In Tune, where we size up current and historic events involving people, places, and things in areas such as the arts, crime, education, employment, faith, finance, food, history, housing, humor, justice, and sports. The interviews on our weekly podcast get down to brass tacks. We originate from and connect the Gateway City to our country's current cultural fabric and lives. The show is co-hosted by Arnold Stricker and Mark Langston.

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Chauncey Spencer-Pioneer in Aviation and Civil Rights

After seeing the flight of an aircraft at an early age, https://pioneersofflight.si.edu/content/chauncey-spencer (Chauncey Spencer) never looked back. He helped bring about the formation of the pilot group that would become the https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/blackwings/tuskegee.cfm (Tuskegee Airmen). In 1939, his father and another pilot, Dale White, were part of a pilot training program in Chicago. At that time, black pilots were denied the opportunity to fly for the military. Spencer and White flew on a 10-city tour intended to show Americans the skills of black pilots. They met with then-Senator Harry Truman who later was responsible for integrating the military. His mother, Anne Spencer was an American poet and activist during the Harlem Renaissance. Chauncey Spencer II discusses his father, grandmother, and the https://ces-ii.com/ (Chauncey Spencer Educational Services) whose mission is to tell the story of African American Aviators and the major role they played in American and Military aviation. [00:39] Background Chauncey Spencer Educational Services Army Air Corps [03:04] Back to the beginning https://pioneersofflight.si.edu/content/challenger-air-pilots-association (Challenger Aero Group) https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/robinson-john-charles-1903-1954/ (John Robinson) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss%E2%80%93Wright_Aeronautical_University#:~:text=Curtiss%E2%80%93Wright%20Aeronautical%20University%20was,accepted%20black%20students%20and%20instructors. (Curtiss Wright Flight School) http://lestweforget.hamptonu.edu/page.cfm?uuid=9FEC42B7-EB34-45CE-CC673CA72120E420 (National Airmen Association of America) http://amistadresearchcenter.tulane.edu/archon/?p=creators/creator&id=443 (Edgar Brown), the https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/2003/02/16/freedom-flight/6bac72d9-eff2-4fc4-88d5-39ec92044dcf/ (flight to Washington D.C)http://lestweforget.hamptonu.edu/page.cfm?uuid=9FEC42B7-EB34-45CE-CC673CA72120E420 (.), https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/african-american-pioneer-dale-white-and-1939-goodwill-flight (Dale White), and Harry Truman [09:40] Funding black colleges in the south https://magellanjets.com/private-aviation/black-history-and-aviation-cornelius-coffey-and-the-first-african-american-aeronautical-school/ (Coffey School of Aeronautics) and Cornelius Coffey https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/bessie-coleman (Bessie Coleman) https://pioneersofflight.si.edu/content/tuskegee-army-air-field (Tuskegee Army Airfield) https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/early-african-american-aviator-willa-brown (Willa Brown) https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/eugene-j-bullard (Eugene Bullard) [12:45] https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chauncey-spencer-african-americans-in-aviation-traveling-museum-dunbar-high-school-bronzeville/ (Traveling Museum) of https://ces-ii.com/ (Chauncey Spencer Educational Services) [23:16] Importance of family and being in the arena of movers and shakers Autobiography, https://chaunceyspencer.wordpress.com/ (Who is Chauncey Spencer?) Undercover agent https://headlines.flydayton.com/10-african-american-pioneers-aviation-aerospace/ (James Banning) https://cafriseabove.org/james-sheppard/ (James Sheppard) [33:59] https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/snapshot/chauncey-spencer-aviator (Favorite story)-Barnstorming/parachute jump [35:10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Spencer (Ann Spencer) This is Season 5! For more episodes, go to https://stlintune.com/ (stlintune.com) #aviation #civilrights #AfricanAmerican #barnstorming #annspencer #chaunceyspencer #jamesbanning #jamessheppard #willabrown #eugenebullard #bessiecoleman #tuskegeeairmen