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Bessie Coleman: Black Aviatrix
Title: Bessie Coleman: Black Aviatrix
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 3142 | Pages: 13.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Bessie Coleman: Black Aviatrix
Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman is an unknown figure in American history. At first, “she complied with society’s standard of job opportunities for women at the turn of the century by working as a domestic and later a manicurist” (Creasman 162-3). After feeling unfulfilled, she turned to flying. The search for flying lessons by an African American in the 1920’s alone could have discouraged anyone, but not Bessie. Her dream was to open a flight school where …showed first 75 words of 3142 total…
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