American Airlines partners with Barbie to honor Bessie Coleman, The First International Black and Native American Woman Pilot
Dr.Nikki ZEIGLER February 7, 2023
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American Airlines partners with Barbie to honor Bessie Coleman, The First International Black and Native American Woman Pilot

American Airlines and Barbie® partnered together to honor the legacy of Bessie Coleman, the first Black and Native American woman to earn a pilot’s license in 1921. To celebrate her birthday, customers flying Flight AA771 from Dallas-Fort Worth to New York received the newly released Barbie® Inspiring Women™ Series Bessie Coleman doll. American continued to […]

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Mattel Creates Ida B. Wells Doll
Dr.Nikki ZEIGLER January 13, 2022
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Mattel Creates Ida B. Wells Doll

Mattel’s Barbie line created an Inspiring Women series of dolls, celebrating distinguished women.  Most recently added to the line up is suffragist, activist, and journalist Ida B. Wells. Born into slavery, Wells was an educator, a journalist, an anti-lynching activist and a NAACP co-founder.  Owner of the The Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper, she […]

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