Playback: Amelia Earhart Part II: The Lady’s Legacy

Amelia Earhart’s statue was recently unveiled at the U.S. Capitol, and for good reason: Her adventurous spirit had implications for women around the country. Earhart went well beyond setting records as a pilot--her true end game was equality for women, a rarely explored side of her life story that goes well beyond the mystery of her disappearance. In today's Playback, we hit our archives and learn about a different Amelia.
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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 Birthplace Museum.
And click here (ameliaearharthangarmuseum.org/the-statue) to learn more about the Amelia Earhart statue at the U.S. Capitol and the new Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum (ameliaearharthangarmuseum.org) being built in Atchison.

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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