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Overlooked No More: Bessie Coleman, Pioneering African American Aviatrix
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Daniel E. Slotnik
The New York Times

Overlooked No More: Bessie Coleman, Pioneering African American Aviatrix
Overlooked No More: Bessie Coleman, Pioneering African American Aviatrix
Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license, thrilling crowds by performing dangerous maneuvers in a rickety airplane and representing, literally, the heights that African Americans could attain.But before all that, she was working as a manicurist on Chicago'
Daniel E. Slotnik
The New York Times