While the Tuskegee Airmen broke barriers, their teacher, Willa Beatrice Brown, broke more. She was the 1st African American woman to earn a pilot's license in the US, the 1st African American woman to run for the US Congress, 1st African American officer in the Civil Air Patrol, and 1st woman in the US to have both a pilot's license and an aircraft mechanic's license." ~ Wikipedia contributors. (2024, November 17). Willa Brown. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11:53, February 2, 2025 from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Willa_Brown&oldid=1257965077

She figured very distantly in a reparational tree I worked on a few years back. I worked heavily on her profile in FamilySearch - FSID #G3NZ-3BK. #BlackHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #BlackExcellence #ReparationalGenealogy