Janet Harmon Bragg Photographs
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Dates:
bulk 1933-1993
Size:
0.05 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
Collection ID:
NASM.2005.0019
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

Janet Waterford Bragg (1907-1993), became one of America's first black women pilots after enrolling in the Curtiss Wright Aeronautical School in 1933. There she helped form the Challenger Air Pilots Association, which later evolved into the Coffey School of Aeronautics. Bragg's career in aviation was made in spite of discrimination, of both her gen...