Janet Bragg
Janet Harmon Bragg (1907-1993) In 1943 Bragg applied for duty with the Women Airforce Service Pilots but was rejected because of her race. She attended instead the Civilian Pilot Training Program flight school at Tuskegee, Alabama, intending to obtain a commercial pilot's license. She successfully completed the course work and flight tests, but was prevented from receiving her license by a bigoted instructor. Not to be deterred, she went to Chicago, where she passed the examination and earned the first commercial pilot's license ever issued to a black woman.