The Stapleton neighborhood recently changed its name to Central Park because of Stapleton's ties to the Ku Klux Klan. Good. But they really missed out on a great opportunity as, ironically, the very first African American pilot ever hired by a commercial passenger airline, Marlon D. Green, began flying passenger planes out of Stapleton International Airport for Continental Airlines in 1965. He fought a six-year court battle that opened the industry to minority-race aviators and was promoted to captain in 1966.
They could have called it Marlon's Green (or something to that effect). The area was originally called Rattlesnake Hollow. Go figure.
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