Amelia Mary Earhart

She was born in July 24, 1897

She disappear at the age of 39 in her most famous
flight, solo across the Atlantic ocean
American female pioneer
She receive de U.S Distinguished Flying Cross for this
record and many other more
Wrote best-selling books of her experience flying
Inspire other women that loved aviation
Member of the National Woman's Party, and
supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Her sister was called Mary
They remained with their grandparents in Atchison,
while their parents moved into new, smaller quarters
in Des Moines.
The two sisters had home-schooling together
Loved to read
In 1909, when the family was together in Des Moines,
the Earhart children were educated in a public school
entering the seventh grade at the age of 12 years.
In the new house she had 2 servants
While she was a nurse she suffered from pneumonia
and maxillary sinusitis, she hospitalized
With a friend Amelia went to an air fair and there
discover her passion of planes
By 1919 Earhart prepared to enter Smith College but
changed her mind and enrolled at Columbia
University
In Long Beach, on December 28, 1920, Earhart and
her father visited an airfield where Frank Hawks (who
later gained fame as an air racer) gave her a ride
that would forever change Earhart's life.
had her first lessons, beginning on January 3, 1921