A Woman to Know: Willa Brown Chappell

She had been training black pilots since the late 1930s ... She was very prominent in the field. — Walter Hill, Jr.

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When she first began taking flight classes in 1936, Willa Brown knew she had a busy decade ahead of her. The next 10 years saw a world war, the integration of the military, an increase in national energy around…