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Fearless Fire

Jason talks about Bessie Coleman and the impact she made on African American and Native-American women. Bessie Coleman was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and the first Native-American to hold a pilot license. She earned her pilot license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale on June 15, 1921, and was the first black person to earn an international pilot's license.