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Gone, but not forgotten: The Story of Bessie Coleman

Gone, but not forgotten. Trailblazing women that fought an unjust system, destroyed barriers set up against them, and WON. Although no American flying school would accept Bessie Coleman as a student because of her race and gender, she still soared across the sky as the first African American, and the first Native American woman pilot. This is her story.

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