Amelia Earhart Part II: The Lady’s Legacy

Behind her modest smile and windblown charm, Amelia Earhart was a rarity in the 1930s: a fiercely confident woman with a dream to fly. Her adventurous spirit went well beyond setting records as a pilot—her true goal was perhaps equality for women. This is a different Amelia, which might explain why the mystery of her disappearance remains unsolved—explorers are looking in the wrong place.
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Read “My Flight from Hawaii,” the 1935 article Earhart wrote for National Geographic (nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/14072…) about her voyage from Hawaii to California.
Peruse the Amelia Earhart archive (earchives.lib.purdue.edu/digital/collection/ea…) at Purdue University, which is filled with memorabilia and images from Earhart’s life, including her inimitable sense of fashion and some revolutionary luggage.
Take a look through Earhart’s childhood home (ameliaearhartmuseum.org) in Atchison, Kansas. It’s now the Amelia Earhart Museum.

Also explore:
Check out Earhart’s cherry red Lockheed Vega 5B (si.edu/object/lockheed-vega-5b-amelia-earhart%…), used to fly across the Atlantic solo in 1932. It’s on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in Washington, D.C.
Learn about the Ninety-Nines (ninety-nines.org), an organization founded in 1929 to promote advancement for women in aviation. Earhart was the Ninety-Nines’ first president. Today its membership is composed of thousands of female pilots from around the world.

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