Who was the first female pilot in america
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First woman to fly an airplane 1910
Janet Harmon Bragg: Aviator
Janet Harmon Bragg is one of the first female black aviators and the first to hold a commercial pilot’s license.
She faced adversity nearly all her life not only because she was black, but also because she was a woman.
Bragg was born March 24, , in Griffin, Ga. She pursued a nursing degree at Spellman College in Atlanta, where she qualified as a registered nurse in before she moved to Chicago to work.
Bragg had always been interested in learning to fly, and in , she became the only woman in her class when she enrolled at Aeronautical University in Chicago.
Though all the students were black, the others would not help her because she was a woman in what they considered to be a man's territory.
However, as one of the few students with a job, Bragg earned some respect from her class
