BY WALTER OPINDE  On June 15, 1921, Bessie Coleman became the first woman of African-American descent as well as a Native American to earn an aviation pilot's license. Bessie became not only the first Black woman to earn an international aviation license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, in France, but also the first African-American woman […]

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