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Women who broke barriers from the year you were born Keri Wiginton FacebookTwitterEmail NASA on the Commons // Wikimedia Commons Women who broke barriers from the year you were born The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1920 to give women the right to vote. Since then, women have been elected to government roles in increasing numbers, culminating in 2021 with the first woman sworn in as vice president of the United States. Politics isn t the only field where women have broken through barriers, of course. In 1944, Ann Baumgartner Carl became the first female test pilot. In 1953, aviator Jacqueline Cochran was the first woman to break the sound barrier. And in 1999, Lt. Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman astronaut to pilot and command a NASA space shuttle mission. Women also have been appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court and directed big-budget, award-winning Hollywood films. ....
TEXAS HISTORY MINUTE: Bessie Coleman, of East, Texas, first African American female pilot By Ken Bridges Special to the Herald Democrat Bessie Coleman had said as a child that she wanted to make something of herself. For an African-American at the turn of the century, there were few opportunities for that to happen. With the invention of airplanes, she found a magnificent new calling as the first African-American woman to become a pilot. As a famous stunt pilot in the 1920s, she toured the country, and all eyes looked skyward to see her perform. Coleman was born outside Atlanta, in deep East Texas, in January 1892 in a one-room cabin. She was the twelfth of thirteen children in a family of sharecroppers. Her father was part black and part Cherokee and her mother was a former slave. At the age of two, the family moved to Waxahachie, where she would attend school. She would walk four miles to the one-room school where she developed a talent f ....