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A fact from Janet Bragg appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 November 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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How acurate is the second sentence of the article: that Janet Bragg was the "first African-American woman to hold a commercial pilot license"? Is there more confirmation of this?
I just read that Bragg was "The second African American woman to earn a full commercial pilot's license" and that "Willa B. Brown became the first African American woman to hold a commercial pilot's license in the United States in 1937."
Source: "Science and Technology." The African American Almanac, edited by Christopher A. Brooks, 11th ed., Gale, 2011, pp. 1375-1409. Gale eBooks. Accessed 8 Apr. 2020.