Airport Terminals

Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their respective depots, terminals, stops, and other public accommodations. It is essential to add airplanes and airports to this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Air travel stands at the center of the twentieth century’s transportation revolution, and airports embodied the rapidly mobilizing, increasingly prosperous, and cosmopolitan character of the postwar United States.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta InternationalAirportis thebusiest airporton earth and the size of a city! Over a quarter of a million passengers pass through its terminals every day to catch almost 200 planes from it’s huge and complex network of terminals.