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    Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first self-identified...
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    Creola Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a...
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    Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of...
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    Cochran (1908–1980), first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound Bessie Coleman (1892–1926), first African-American woman pilot, earned her license...
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  • (1981). Wanda Sykes as various characters, including Harriet Tubman, Bessie Coleman, and Shirley Chisholm. Nick Kroll as various characters, including Schmuck...
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    Dorothy H. Andersen Lucille Ball Rosalynn Carter Lydia Maria Child Bessie Coleman Dorothy Day Marian de Forest Althea Gibson Beatrice A. Hicks Barbara...
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  • first Asian American on U.S. currency. Honorees featured in 2023 are: Bessie Coleman; design released at an event at the Federal Aviation Administration...
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  • Henry VIII of England Bessie Braddock (1899–1970), British politician Bessie Christie (1904–1983), New Zealand painter Bessie Coleman (1892–1926), American...
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    Katherine Stinson became the first woman in the world to perform a loop. Bessie Coleman, an African-American woman, "not only thrilled audiences with her skills...
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    also took a West African statuette and a photo of pioneering aviator Bessie Coleman, the first African American with an international pilot license. STS-47...
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