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- In early aviation women like Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman were discriminated against, and African-American women could not fly. Male pilots thought women were lacking knowledge and strength. Women thought this was unfair so something needed to happen.
- We have always wanted to fly planes! Can we fly?
- NO! Women can not fly and women of color can not fly! You will never be a pilot , women are too weak.
- Women protested and fought for equal rights. Women wanted to fly planes the same way men did, and they wanted women to be equal. In 1918 Woodrow Wilson supported women's suffrage, and eventually passed the 19th amendment stating that women have rights. This soon changed aviation for ever.
- WOMEN'S RIGHTS
- FREEDOM FOR WOMEN
- Let women be pilots!We can be awesome!
- Flying eventually opened up for many women and women of color. Many firsts were made like the first African-American woman to get her pilots license like Bessie Coleman on June 15th 1921. There were others like how Harriet Quimby was the first female pilot to earn her license on August 1st 1911, or how Ruth Law was the first female pilot to fly at night in 1913.
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