Ransom finished his MIT studies after the war and moved to Virginia to work for NACA, the predecessor to NASA, joining a growing group of Black MIT alumni, faculty, and students who would play a vital role in the U.S. In 1945 Ransom, along with a number of other MIT alumni, took part in protests against the discrimination they faced. But the airmen experienced racism and segregation during the war.
People scurried between what he described as MIT’s “massive, unsympathetic buildings” as the campus underwent a transformation that took on new urgency after the attacks on Pearl Harbor that December.ĭuring his sophomore year, Ransom took leave from MIT and joined the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of Black pilots who later earned accolades for their performance in combat.
When Victor Ransom ’42 arrived at MIT from New York City in 1941, he discovered a campus electrified by the war effort.
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