In 1922, aviation trailblazer Bessie Coleman became the first woman, African American and known Indigenous American to become a pilot and perform a public flight. Before the age of 34, she obtained her international pilot’s license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, gave flight lessons to Black Americans and executed fascinating tricks in the air that […]
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