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The Flying Ace
In 1926 director/producer Richard E. Norman created a black-and-white, silent film with an all African-American cast, The Flying Ace. Inspired by the story of Bessie Coleman, the first African-American woman and Native American to hold both a pilot’s license and an international pilot’s license. Coleman died in April 1926, after taking off in a Curtiss…
