from 2005 two 2014 she served -- she will be followed by peter norton, executive professor of history in the department of engineering and society at the university of virginia. is the author of fighting traffic, the dawn of the moderates in the american city. his article street writers jaywalking and one the avid patent usher prize and he is a member of the -- each will speak for about 10 minutes afterwards i will open the floor to question. >> i'm going to try to give you a quick primer on the history of our ports in the united dates. -- airport in the united states. the major airports are locally and publicly owned. they owned by a city, county, state, or public authority. airports are critical to a national and international air transportation system used by more -- a majority of americans, there has been a debate of their funding, their construction, their maintenance and their expansion. should it be local or federal, public or private? to give you some context, the first customers for airports were actually members of the post office. they needed -- they didn't have the money t

she will be followed by peter norton, professor of history and the department of engineering and society at the university of virginia. he is the author of "fighting ." his article, "street rivals," published in "technology and culture," won the abbott payson usher prize. and he is a member of the university of virginia center for transportation studies and of the sustainable urban mobility project of technical university eindhoven, netherlands. each will speak for about 10 unit -- 10 minutes. afterward, i will open the floor for question and post some of my own. ms. bednarek: i want to give you a quick primer on the history of airports in the united states. for the most part, the major commercial airports in the united states are locally or publicly owned. city,owned by the a county, state, or public at 30. while airports are critical to a national and international air transportation system used by a majority of americans, there has long been a debate on their funding, construction, maintenance, and expansion. should it be local or federal, public or private? to give you context, the f

the third gentleman in the photo is a white australian sprinter named peter norton. the olympic games of 2000 were in sydney. i found him. what he had to say was fascinating. he was radical in his own way. australia's protest treatment of the aboriginal population. they said you are welcome to participate. he said i would feel inappropriate raising my fist. you have your own protest. i do not want to get in the way of that. i would like to protest. there is a button people were wearing around the olympic games and carlos saw one on a friend of his and asked if he could borrow. he put it on norman. he paid a price for this. after the games were over, he was criticized in the australian press. evens never selected again though he was a silver medalist. what i found poignant and this was after i spoke to him -- he his in 2006 and among pallbearers were smith and carlos. which i found an adjusting coda to the whole protest incident. looking back at how he was received in the american media -- andcking for someone for someone in the media, embarrassing. he is already anot