General Photograph File, 1986 - 1995
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Bullard, Eugene Jacques, 1894-1961
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Eugene Jacques Bullard (born October 9, 1895, Columbus, Georgia – died October 12, 1961, New York City), born Eugene James Bullard, was the first black American military pilot. Bullard, who flew for France, was one of the few black combat pilots during World War I, along with William Robinson Clarke, a Jamaican who flew for the Royal Flying Corps, Domenico Mondelli from Italy and Ahmet Ali Çelikten of the Ottoman Empire. Also a boxer and a jazz musician, he was called L'Hirondelle noire in Frenc...
United States. Federal Aviation Administration
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Legislative history of Public Law 89-670, which established the Department of Transportation. The department was set up to coordinate and manage transportation programs, provide leadership in the resolution of transportation problems, and develop national transportation policies and programs. The history documents the process from just prior to the introduction of the bill into the 89th Congress until after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law on October 15, 1966. From the ...
Brown, Willa, 1906-1992
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Willa Brown (b. Jan. 22, 1906, Glasgow, KT–d. July 18, 1992, Chicago, IL) was the first African-American woman to earn her pilot's license in the United States, the first African-American woman to run for the United States Congress, the first African-American officer in the US Civil Air Patrol, and the first woman in the United States to have both a pilot's license and a mechanic's license. Before learning to fly she worked as a high school teacher and a social worker. Brown studied with Corne...
Coleman, Bessie, 1892-1926
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Bessie Coleman (b. Jan. 26, 1892, Atlanta, TX–d. April 30, 1926, Jacksonville FL) was an American civil aviator and the first woman of African-American descent and the first of Native American descent to hold a pilot license. At 24, she moved to Chicago and became interested in flying but was unable to attain a license in the United States. She relocated to Paris in 1920 and in 1921, Coleman became the first woman of African-American and Native American descent to earn an aviation pilot's licens...
Collins, Michael, 1930-2021
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Michael Collins (b. October 31, 1930, Rome, Italy) is an American astronaut and test pilot. He was on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. Collins was also the director of the National Air and Space Museum and served as the undersecretary of the Smithsonian Institution....
