Since his arrival into the baseball scene in 1996, Derek Jeter has not only turned himself into a baseball icon but a symbol of athletic perfection as well. Spending his entire 20-year career with the New York Yankees, he helped them win 7 pennants and 5 World Series, while also making the All-Star team nearly every year.
Elizabeth Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 â April 30, 1926) was the first female African American pilot ever to hold an international pilot license. She fought discrimination to follow her dream of becoming a pilot. 1 Early Life.
This is a static page that is no longer maintained. The Hollywood Ten. American novelist and journalist Alvah Bessie wrote screenplays for Warner Brothers and other studios during the mid and late '40s. As a screenwriter, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Story for the patriotic Warner's film Objective Burma(1945).