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Bessie Coleman; The Green Book
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Welcome in to episode 55! The sisters continue their journey through Black history with the stories of Bessie Coleman, the first Black *and* Native American woman to receive her pilot’s license. She dazzled her audiences with her shows doing tail spins, loop de loops, wing walking and sky diving! Next, KT covers the creation of The Negro Motorist Green Book, More commonly called The Green Book, and how it put power and freedom in the hands of Black travelers across the United States (and world!)
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Source Materials:
Bessie Coleman--
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/first-american-women-flight
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/bessie-coleman
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/celebrating-centennial-bessie-coleman
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flygirls-bessie-coleman/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/obituaries/bessie-coleman-overlooked.html
Green Book--
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Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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