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Meet Bessie Coleman, the First Black Woman to Get a Pilot's License.

In 1921, Coleman earned an internationally respected license to fly from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale—two years before Amelia Earhart received her own international license.

Relevant: Bessie Stringfield, the Bad-Ass Black Motorcycle Queen of the 1930s.