"In 1968, Eleanor began her career at Federal Aviation Administration, cleaning the building — no job too small. She then moved to the steno pool and on to become the first African-American woman to certify as an air traffic controller at the Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center, in 1971. In 1976 it was verified and found to be true that she was the first African-American to certify, at which time she was entered into the U.S. history books. Her legacy did not stop there; this was merely a stepping-stone. She went on to become the first African-American woman to head up a major en-route facility in 1994, at the Cleveland ARTCC in Oberlin, Ohio, the nation’s second-busiest en-route air traffic control facility. She was inducted into the Black Aviation Hall of Fame in 2001, along with such greats as C. Alfred Anderson and several other Tuskegee Airmen."
— African-American aviation pioneer is dead: Obituary Archive | Alaska news at adn.com
