Diversity in Aviation

Diversity is important to give all races and genders an opportunity to grow with modern civilization. When referring to aviation, diversity is such a great factor that there wouldn’t have been an Amelia Earhart, a Bessie Coleman nor a Benjamin O. Davis. You would only have one race, one gender and one country with the knowledge of aviation. In the early nineteen hundreds the field of aviation was primarily studied by one race and one gender. Only after the nineteen twenties did the world see it’s first African American aviator. She was also a woman and her name was Bessie Coleman. She received her pilot’s license and continued to fly until the tragic day she was thrown from her plane and was killed. Only twenty years after that did World War II come along and the 66th Air Force flying school at the Tuskegee Institute was established. Blacks took advantage of this opportunity to prove their ability and to assist in the war. Benjamin O. Davis for whom my school is named , became the first African American Air Force officer to achieve general’s rank in 1953. Bessie Coleman and B. O. Davis have been a role model for me and I hope that one day I could maybe a role model for other minority female aviators to come. Because of the increase in diversity, Gen. Davis and Bessie Coleman were able to do what they loved and were obviously good at. If someone is being kept from something that they are devoted to doing, then that person would never know what they could have become. Being a young African American woman, I am glad that I have the opportunity to pursue my dream of becoming an aircraft pilot. It is very important to continue increasing diversity in this field so that it can be possible for all races to have the advantage to pursue what they