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.
While traveling the south and mid-west, she met Gertrude Ma Rainey, The Mother of Blues whom was one of Bessie strongest influences. About 1919, Gertrude Ma Rainey, one of the first of the great blues singers, trained Bessie. Rainey gave Bessie the guidance to become the Blues legend she is today.