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Willa Beatrice Brown, a 31-year-old Negro American, serves her country by training pilots for the U.S. Army Air Forces.

from U.S. National Archives

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Willa Beatrice Brown (1906-1992) was also the first African-American woman to hold a commercial pilot's license in the US (Bessie Coleman got her license in 1921, that was in France): www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7288758 She ran for Congress in 1946, 1948, and 1950, and taught aeronautics at a high school until she retired in the 1970s. avstop.com/history/blackwomenpilot/willabrown.htm