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Black History Month Event: Bessie Coleman at the Renton History Museum

Elizabeth P. Stewart, Neighbor

Actor-storyteller Eva Abram brings Miss Bessie Coleman to the Renton History Museum. Miss Coleman shares her desire to become a pilot in a nation where no licensed female African-American pilots existed. She describes her firsthand experiences with discrimination and then triumph in the 1920s when she became the first internationally licensed Black aviatrix.

Audience: high school through adult. $1 students / $3 adults / members always free.

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