Penny Pritzker: Chicagoan Bessie Coleman, the first Black female pilot, will be recognized on the US quarter
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In the dictionary, the word "tenacious" ought to be followed by a photo of Chicagoan Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license.Coleman, also of Native American descent, moved to Chicago in her early 20s hoping to find and follow her dreams, but she discovered that no pilot training schools would admit her.
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