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100+ NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD, by KB Schaller (Peppertree Press, LLC., 2014, Sarasota, Florida, 213 pages). Book Review by Dennis Moore &nb
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A young woman from rural east Texas, who grew up in a hardscrabble existence as one of 13 children born to poor sharecropper parents, became an unlikely choice to pave the way for future
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Bessie Coleman, circa 1922. Coleman received her license in France because racial prejudice precluded lessons within the United States. Nicknamed "Brave Bessie" during her US barnstorming days, she died in a plane crash in 1926. SI-88-7993
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Bessie Coleman (1893-1926). First African American woman to earn a pilot’s license confronted segregation in the sky. Spurred on by the exploits of World War I pilots, Bessie Coleman obtained...
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I love finding out random bits of knowledge and I recently ran into a couple of these Bessie Coleman postcards while being a tourist at Arlington cemetery. Now, I’ve noticed that it’s a…
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