In the 1930’s, women around the world were evolving into important members of society. Amelia Earhart was one of the key figures in history for representing the growth of female involvement in a male run industry. Amelia was a famed pilot, author, editor, activist, and overall influential character in not only American history but in the history of the world. Amelia Mary Earhart, born July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas, was inspired one day when at an aviation expo a little red plane flew right by her. After this, Amelia had told her sister, “I believe that little red plane said something to me as it swished by.” Her infatuation with airplanes continued to grow when in December of 1920, miss Earhart attended an airshow in long beach California
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When he asked her if she’d like the chance to be the first female pilot to cross the atlantic. Amelia accepted despite the fact that the navigator was getting monetary compensation as a male pilot. She accepted on the sole purpose of publicity, so little girls and women would see that they can set records and change the world, even if the world is against them. Her first trip was on a plane dubbed “friendship” with two other male crew members. After this challenging success she wrote a book called “20 hours and 4 minutes” describing the adventure she had experienced on this flight. She was also the first women to fly the atlantic solo and was the first women awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on August 24-25th by congress in 1932. Proving that she was a force to be reckoned with and would reinvent the expectations of what a women should be, despite whatever obstacles stand in her way. It was not necessarily the records she set but the beliefs she represented to women around the world, to show them what they are capable of, and to show them that if they just try they can achieve their dreams. Amelia Earhart lit a fire in the hearts of future female pilots just as that little red plane had started a fire in her own.
Earhart risked her own life to represent what she believed in, in a letter to her husband before her death she wrote “Please know I am quite aware of the hazards.
When he asked her if she’d like the chance to be the first female pilot to cross the atlantic. Amelia accepted despite the fact that the navigator was getting monetary compensation as a male pilot. She accepted on the sole purpose of publicity, so little girls and women would see that they can set records and change the world, even if the world is against them. Her first trip was on a plane dubbed “friendship” with two other male crew members. After this challenging success she wrote a book called “20 hours and 4 minutes” describing the adventure she had experienced on this flight. She was also the first women to fly the atlantic solo and was the first women awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on August 24-25th by congress in 1932. Proving that she was a force to be reckoned with and would reinvent the expectations of what a women should be, despite whatever obstacles stand in her way. It was not necessarily the records she set but the beliefs she represented to women around the world, to show them what they are capable of, and to show them that if they just try they can achieve their dreams. Amelia Earhart lit a fire in the hearts of future female pilots just as that little red plane had started a fire in her own.
Earhart risked her own life to represent what she believed in, in a letter to her husband before her death she wrote “Please know I am quite aware of the hazards.