Seventy-nine years ago, a 35-year-old Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly nonstop across the United States.
Earhart, an early supporter of women's rights and a member of the National Woman's Party, was also a best selling author and a visiting faculty member at Purdue University to counsel women on careers. She would disappear over the Pacific Ocean five years later while attempting to circumnavigate the world in a twin-engine Lockheed Model 10 Electra aircraft.
Who is the Amelia in your family tree? The brave woman who pioneered a pathway of courage and determination for the women in your family? .....
