In the 1930s, Black men and women navigated institutionalized biases and racism to secure their pilot licenses. Fifty years later, Ted Robinson, an employee of the Federal Aviation Administration who served as the National Air and Space Museum's historian of Black aviation, interviewed a few of those groundbreakers. On Friday, February 25, 2022, at 12 p.m. ET, Smithsonian historians Dr. Pamela Henson and Hannah Byrne will showcase the Black Aviators Videohistory Interviews conducted at the National Air and Space Museum in 1989 and in Chicago in 1990. The audience will hear aviators Janet Harmon Bragg and Cornelius Coffey share their trailblazing stories about breaking barriers and reaching the clouds. This screening will be the first time some of these videos have been made available online to the public. Registration: Google the Smithsonian 175th Film Fest: Films from the Smithsonian Institution Archives or https://www.si.edu/events/detail/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D...