Janet Harmon Bragg

The late Janet Harmon Bragg became one of America's first Black female pilots after enrolling in Chicago’s Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical School in 1933. There she helped form the Challenger Air Pilots Association, which later became the National Airmen’s Association of America (NAAA). Janet co-ran Johnson Flying Service, an integrated flight school for civilians during World War II. Janet’s career in aviation was made despite discrimination, of both her gender and her race. As a woman, she was initially denied a commercial license, after passing the flight test at the Tuskegee pilot training school. As a person of color, Janet was denied entry into the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) program.