Born in Kentucky in 1906, Willa Brown was the first African American woman to get a commercial pilots license in the United States. In 1939, she married Cornelius Coffey. They started the first African American owned and managed flight school and academy in the U.S. By the year 1941, several men who were in the Tuskegee Airmen had trained under Brown. She was also the first African American woman to run for congress in 1946.
Women Pilots
Willa Brown
