Throughout February, the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer will highlight featured exhibits related to African-Americans and transportation history. Featured exhibits include the Barber Junction Depot, where Jim Crow laws separating the races were in effect; the Brockway fire truck that belonged to the all-black Quick Step Hook and Ladder Company; and the exhibit on Capt. Bill Wilkerson, retired Piedmont Airlines and U.S. Airways pilot. Read more here...
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| Retired Piedmont Airlines and US Air Capt. Bill Wilkerson, center, sits on Black History Month panel Friday, February 2, 2013 at the Garner Performing Arts Center. |
Black History Month - Retired African-American airline captain a ‘pioneer’
When Bill Wilkerson does historical re-enactments, he wears the uniform of an airline captain.
It’s a role he knows well. He was the real thing.
One of the earliest African-American commercial pilots, he flew 15 years for the old Winston-Salem-based Piedmont Airlines and stayed on after the company merged in 1989 with what is now US Airways. Read more here...
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| 2013 ribbon cutting ceremony at NC Transportation Museum. (L to R) Jody Everhart, Larry Neal, Barbara Sammons, Shelley Crisp, Darrell Stover, and Bill Wilkerson |
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