Hannibal Cox, 65, director of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for Eastern Airlines, was a combat pilot in three wars and helped break down racial bias in the airline industry. Services for Mr. Cox, a resident of Miami and formerly of Chicago, were held Tuesday in the chapel at 318 E. 71st St. Mr. Cox died Dec. 23 in a Miami hospital as a result of cancer. '`He was one man who wanted to change the world,`` said his daughter, Micelle Cox-Stinson. ``He wanted to make it better for the individual. He was an educator and an intellectual, and he was gentle. He believed there is always something good in everyone. You find that good, he used to say, and you`ll be able to work with it.`` Mr. Cox was among the small group of blacks trained to be pilots during World War II in the then-segregated Army Air Corps. They were taught in Tuskeegee, Ala., and became known as ``The Tuskeegee Airmen.`` He flew missions in World War II, the Korean War and the Viet Nam War, retiring as a colonel. His photograph was included in a traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibit, '`Black Wings: The American Black in Aviation.`` He is also interviewed in some documentaries about The Tuskegee Airmen. He received a bachelor`s degree in aeronautics from Tennessee State University, a master`s in industrial relations and personnel management from the University of Chicago and a doctorate in psychology from Western Colorado University. On retiring from the Air Force in the 1960s, he joined Eastern Airlines as director of ground equipment. He later was appointed director of its equal opportunity and community relations programs. Survivors, besides his daughter, included his wife, Margaret; two sons, Michael Wade and M. Wesley; another daughter, Julienne Mallory; and eight grandchildren.
Hannibal Cox, 65, director of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for Eastern Airlines, was a combat pilot in three wars and helped break down racial bias in the airline industry. Services for Mr. Cox, a resident of Miami and formerly of Chicago, were held Tuesday in the chapel at 318 E. 71st St. Mr. Cox died Dec. 23 in a Miami hospital as a result of cancer. '`He was one man who wanted to change the world,`` said his daughter, Micelle Cox-Stinson. ``He wanted to make it better for the individual. He was an educator and an intellectual, and he was gentle. He believed there is always something good in everyone. You find that good, he used to say, and you`ll be able to work with it.`` Mr. Cox was among the small group of blacks trained to be pilots during World War II in the then-segregated Army Air Corps. They were taught in Tuskeegee, Ala., and became known as ``The Tuskeegee Airmen.`` He flew missions in World War II, the Korean War and the Viet Nam War, retiring as a colonel. His photograph was included in a traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibit, '`Black Wings: The American Black in Aviation.`` He is also interviewed in some documentaries about The Tuskegee Airmen. He received a bachelor`s degree in aeronautics from Tennessee State University, a master`s in industrial relations and personnel management from the University of Chicago and a doctorate in psychology from Western Colorado University. On retiring from the Air Force in the 1960s, he joined Eastern Airlines as director of ground equipment. He later was appointed director of its equal opportunity and community relations programs. Survivors, besides his daughter, included his wife, Margaret; two sons, Michael Wade and M. Wesley; another daughter, Julienne Mallory; and eight grandchildren.
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