Out of the skies and the Florida sun while the day is new and flowers are wet with

a morning dew she falls and lies. A brown bird girl, first of the race to soar the heights.

Our glorious pinions and daring flights, of plain swift whirl,

we dashed the tear from our welling eyes since she flew to meet the great

adventure on Pinions feel devoid of fear. A race well run, intrepid bravery to dare and do, what noble

pillar when striving through. And life is done.

Welcome to National Park After Dark. You're going to do. Was that a poem I found and it's written I guess a little bit differently because it was written in

1928 and the poem I read was written by Harry Leavitt and it was published in a newspaper of the California Eagle on Friday, December 21st,

1928 and it is specifically about the woman of the story today Bessie Coleman.

Okay, I'm excited for this one because I know a little bit of her story, but from what you have alluded to, from what you've gathered for research, I knew a small fraction of what you're about to tell everyone.

Cool.

That makes me happy because I know her story is more and more widely told

and I know that there have been other podcasts that have covered her

and I haven't listened to them because I don't like to I don't like to listen to other podcasts for research very often because I think that everyone picks their own direction that they want to go in and I don't want to copy

anyone in that sense or I don't know I just I didn't want to get like bias of what I wanted to say and

what I didn't want to say from another story. So I watched a documentary for this. It's called the legend, Bessie Coleman. I found it on Amazon. And I also read a couple of other articles and things like that. but I'm going to be telling the story of

Bessie Coleman who was an African American woman who became one of the best pilots in the

country in the 1920s despite being told that she couldn't because she was a woman and because she was a black woman.

She was told because she was a woman she was too emotional to be able to handle stressful situations

or perform under pressure and she was

told because she was an African American woman she was simply not smart enough to be

able to fly or navigate a plane. And what park is this associated with? Because like I said, when I've heard her story before,

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