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Bessie Coleman - National Womens Hall of Fame. Year Honored: 2001Birth: 1892 - Death: 1926Born In: Texas, United States of AmericaDied In: Florida, United States of AmericaAchievements: ScienceEducated In: Texas, OklahomaSchools Attended: Colored Agricultural and Normal University, Ecole d'Aviation des Freres CaudonWorked In: Illinois, New York, Tennessee, Texas, California, Georgia, Florida << Back to Search Results The world's first African American woman aviator, Bessie Coleman, earned her pilot's license in 1921 in France, two years before her more famous contemporary, Amelia Earhart.
Bessie Coleman, the tenth child in a family of thirteen, grew up in a large, single-parent family in rural Texas. She learned about aviation through childhood reading, finished high school and some teacher's college training, and moved to Chicago. There, she was mentored by two African-American philanthropists, Robert Abbott and Jesse Binga. Additional Sources: Bessie Coleman Biography (Aviator)
Aviator Born: 26 January 1892 Died: 30 April 1926 (internal injuries)
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Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson was the third president and a founder of one of the original political parties, the Democratic-Republican Party.
He wrote the Declaration of Independence and bought the Louisiana Territory. Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was born in Albemarle County, Virginia in 1743.
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Dorchester The U.S.A.T. Dorchester was an aging, luxury coastal liner that was no longer luxurious. In the nearly four years from December 7, 1941 to September 2, 1945 more than 16 million American men and women were called upon to defend human dignity and freedom on two fronts, in Europe and the Pacific. Moving so large a force to the battlefields was a monumental effort, and every available ship was being pressed into service. Some of these were converted into vessels of war, others to carrying critical supplies to the men and women in the field. This Month in History: February - The Four Chaplains. One of the more extraordinary acts of heroism during World War II occurred in the icy waters off Greenland after a U.S.
Army transport ship was hit by a German torpedo and began to sink rapidly. When it became apparent there were not enough life jackets, four U.S. Army chaplains each removed theirs, handed them to frightened young soldiers, and chose to go down with the ship. Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation. It was the evening of Feb. 2, 1943, and the U.S.A.T. Dorchester was crowded to capacity, carrying 902 service men, merchant seamen and civilian workers. Tubman, Harriet Ross (c. 1821-1913) Image Ownership: Public Domain Dubbed “The Moses of Her People,” escaped slave Harriet Tubman assisted hundreds of slaves on the Underground Railroad, leading them from Maryland to safety in Pennsylvania. Harriet Tubman. Astronaut Biography: Danny Olivas. You Are the Pride: Danny Olivas. Juliette Gordon Low Biography. Juliette Gordon Low, founder of Girl Scouts of the USA, was born Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon on October 31, 1860, in Savannah, Georgia.
"Daisy," as she was affectionately called by family and friends, was the second of six children of William Washington Gordon and Eleanor Kinzie Gordon. Family members on her father's side were early settlers in Georgia, and her mother's family played an important role in the founding of Chicago, Illinois. A sensitive and talented youngster, Daisy Gordon spent a happy childhood in her large Savannah home, which was purchased and restored by Girl Scouts of the USA in 1953. Now known as the Juliette Gordon Low Girl Scout National Center, or often referred to as the Birthplace, the handsome English Regency house was designated a registered National Historic Landmark in 1965.
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