03/08/2024
Happy International Women's day!
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This year I wanted to honour Bessie Coleman, a Texan who dreamt of flying planes. However, as a Black woman in the 1920s, getting her pilot's license in the U.S. was nothing short of impossible. But in the face of adversity, learned to speak French, then left to train in France, where Black people were permitted to become aviators. Within seven months, Coleman officially became the first black woman pilot.
She also went on to perform stunts, training with the German military aces and successfully became a "barnstormer," or pilot who did stunts at airshows. Tragically, she died in an air accident in 1926 at the age of 34, doing what she loved as a total bad ass.
