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Bessie Coleman: Woman Who ‘Dared to Dream’ Made Aviation History

Posted on February 1, 2012 by jtozer

From www.af.mil FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (AFNS) - 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 …
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Tag Archives: Bessie Coleman

Bessie Coleman: Woman Who ‘Dared to Dream’ Made Aviation History

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