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A Pair of Wings Book by Carole Hopson

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  • After moving to Chicago to carve out her own identity, Bessie learns that no flight school in the US will train a Black woman
  • So, she travels to France and earns her pilot’s license—two years before Amelia Earhart
  • Set in the roaring twenties, her story is daring and deeply inspiring
  • Paperback; 432 pgs.

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Inspired by the remarkable real life of pioneering Black aviatrix Bessie Coleman, this novel follows her, the daughter of a woman born into slavery who ends up in the clouds. After moving to Chicago to carve out her own identity, Bessie learns that no flight school in the U.S. will train a Black woman. So, she travels to France and earns her pilot’s license—two years before Amelia Earhart. Set in the roaring twenties, her story is daring and deeply inspiring. Paperback; 432 pgs.

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