Southwest Airlines always looks for ways to celebrate and have FUN with our Customers. During the month of February, we did just that. In a number of our airports we celebrated Black History Month with you. In Dallas a local Jazz musician and the BF Durrell Elementary step group performed at Dallas Love Field Airport. If you missed the celebrations in our airports, we'll give you a chance to win now.
This is our first try at Southwest Airlines Gate Games - Blog Style. The first person to correctly post the answer as a comment to this post will win a prize pack of a Tom Joyner Southwest Airlines Sky Shows T-shirt, a Southwest Airlines golf towel, and a Hidden Beach CD. (Once you are identified as the first correct answer, we'll e-mail you to get your correct mailing address. Please don't post your address in the comment.)
- On what date did the Army Air Force begin a program in Alabama to train African-American men as military pilots? The soldiers that were a part of this program became known as the Tuskegee Airmen.
- Who wrote "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" often called "The Black National Anthem"?
- On what date was Thurgood Marshall sworn in to become the first African-American member of the U.S. Supreme Court?