Red Tails Overlooks the Story of America's First Black Pilots - The Daily Beast - 0 views
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valerie taylor on 18 Jan 12"Within a decade of the Wright brothers' 1903 flight, in 1912, a Pennsylvanian named Emory Malick unknowingly began apattern by having to go all the way to Southern California before he could find somebody willing to teach a black person how to fly. He became the first African-American to earn a pilot's license."