Happy Birthday Bessie Coleman!

A. Spectre · 01-26-2017, 08:22 AM

Happy Birthday Bessie Coleman! A remarkable person and aviator

(CNN)Bessie Coleman broke multiple barriers when she took flight in 1921, and became the first African-American woman to earn a pilot's license.

Today's Google Doodle commemorates the 125th anniversary of her birth. Coleman was among a small group of female aviators in the early 20th century who successfully flew around the detours of racial prejudice and sexism to become queens in the air.

Worldwide, only 3 percent of airline pilots are women, the Royal Aeronautical Society said last November.

Recently, there's a move to change that.

The obvious place to begin is by highlighting the achievements of those long-forgotten -- the women who ignored the men who scorned them, broke through the restrictions society placed on them, and paved the way for Amelia Earhart.

Fierce!

Orema · 01-26-2017, 08:31 AM

Shoutin' out to the late Bessie Coleman.

So grateful for women like her who "refused to take no for an answer."

Gráinne · 01-26-2017, 08:57 AM

And remember Harriet Quimby, the first woman to cross the English Channel (over a decade before Charles Lindburgh). It's forgotten today because it was April 16, 1912-the day after the Titanic sank.

*Anya* · 01-26-2017, 09:39 AM

It's shameful that I/we, do not know enough about the hard-earned history of women in general and African-American/minority women, in particular.

Thank you Ace for educating me today!

Happy Birthday Bessie!

01-26-2017, 08:22 AM	#1
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