Today is Marguerite Higgins' birthday. She has the first Pulitzer Prize awarded a woman international reporting. This woman had guts! During the Korean War, she was ordered to return to her Tokyo post, to be replaced by Homer Bigart because females when American Lieutenant General Walton W. Walker banned all from the front. She refused to leave and finally permission was granted by General Douglas MacArthur to resume her front line reporting.
Please read more about her at http://newspaper-journalism.suite101.com/article.cfm/american_women_journalist_marguerite_higgins
For a very long time, no one told African American women that they could fly, so there are very few of them as commercial pilots. This website is for inspiring women to fly. Flying being defined as succeeding. Succeeding defined however you decide. We are simply here to tell you sistergirlfriend, YOU CAN FLY!
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