Featured The Life and Presidency of Harry S. Truman
The White House Historical Association’s 2018 White House Christmas Ornament honors Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third president of the United St...
Oscar DePriest poses in front of a plane located on an airfield in Los Angeles, 1929.
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- 1929
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Oscar DePriest poses in front of a plane located on an airfield in Los Angeles, 1929.
Oscar DePriest poses in front of a plane located on an airfield in Los Angeles, 1929. Oscar DePriest was part of the Bessie Coleman’s Aero Clubs, established to honor the memory of Bessie Coleman, the first African-American woman to earn an international pilot’s license. The image is inscribed, “Compliments of your friends of Bessie Coleman Aero Clubs 1423 St. Jefferson Blvd., Los Angles Calif, 9-30-1929.”
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