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DORIS L. RICH had a varied career as a reporter, writer, photographer, and teacher that took her all over the world, from Michigan to Guam, Korea, Shanghai, Bangladesh, and Africa. Her biography Amelia Earhart was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review.
Here is the brief but intense life of Bessie Coleman, America's first African American woman aviator. Born in 1892 in Atlanta, Texas, she became known as "Queen Bess," a barnstormer and flying-circus performer who defied the strictures of race, sex, and society in pursuit of a dream.