Willa Beatrice Brown, the first Black woman to receive a commission as a lieutenant in the U.S. Civil Air Patrol in 1937. She and her husband, Cornelius Coffey, founded a fully accredited flying school at Harlem Airfield, near Chicago. The school provided basic through advanced mechanic training and flight instruction for thousands of men and women, both black and white.
Willa became a founding member of the National Airmen's Association of America, whose purpose was to lobby Congress for the racial integration of the US Army Air Corps. Her efforts were responsible for Congress's creation of the renowned Tuskegee Airmen, leading to the integration of the US military service in 1948.
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