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00:00Women who change the world.
00:30Women must try to do things as men have tried.
00:34When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
00:38Amelia Earhart.
00:39Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas.
00:45Her father, Edwin, was a lawyer who worked for the railroad.
00:48She spent a lot of her childhood playing with her younger sister, Muriel.
00:53Growing up, Amelia and her sister had all sorts of adventures.
00:57They collected insects and frogs.
00:58They liked to play sports, including baseball and football.
01:02Amelia even learned to shoot a .22 rifle and used it to kill rats in her dad's barn.
01:07Amelia's first flight was when she was just seven years old.
01:11With the help of Muriel and her uncle, she made a homemade roller coaster.
01:15After crashing dramatically, she told her sister that it was just like flying.
01:20When Amelia was 11 years old in 1908,
01:23she saw one of the Wright brothers' first airplanes at the Iowa State Fair.
01:27She had no interest in flying and didn't think much of the plane at the time.
01:32In the winter of 1920, Earhart saw her first air show and took her first airplane ride.
01:38As soon as we left the ground, she said,
01:41I knew I had to fly.
01:42On December 15, 1921, Amelia received her license from the National Aeronautics Association, NAA.
01:51By working part-time as a file clerk, office assistant, photographer, and truck driver,
01:56and with some help from her mother, Earhart eventually bought her own plane.
02:01In 1924, Earhart's parents separated again.
02:05Amelia sold her plane and bought a car in which she drove her mother to Boston,
02:10where her sister was teaching school.
02:12She returned to Boston, where she became a social worker,
02:16joined the NAA, and continued to fly in her spare time.
02:21On February 7, 1931, Amelia Earhart married George Putnam,
02:26the publisher of her autobiography, In His Mother's Home in Connecticut.
02:31Putnam had already published several writings by Charles Lindbergh
02:34when he saw Earhart's 1928 transatlantic flight
02:38as a best-selling story with Amelia as the star.
02:42Putnam, who was married to Crayola heiress Dorothy Benny Putnam,
02:46invited Earhart to move into their Connecticut home to work on her book.
02:50After Charles Lindbergh's solo flight from New York to Paris in May 1927,
02:57interest grew for having a woman fly across the Atlantic.
03:00In April 1928, Amelia Earhart received a phone call from Captain Hilton H. Raley,
03:07a pilot and publicity man, asking her,
03:10Would you like to fly the Atlantic?
03:12In a heartbeat, she said yes.
03:15She traveled to New York to be interviewed
03:17and met with project coordinators, including publisher George P. Putnam.
03:22Soon, she was selected to be the first woman on a transatlantic flight as a passenger.
03:28The wisdom at the time was that such a flight was too dangerous for a woman to conduct herself.
03:34On June 17, 1928,
03:37Amelia Earhart took off from Trespassy Harbor.
03:40However, accompanying her on the flight was pilot William Bill Stultz
03:45and co-pilot mechanic Louis E. Slim Gordon.
03:49Approximately 20 hours and 40 minutes later,
03:52they touched down at Bury Point, Wales, in the United Kingdom.
03:57Due to the weather, Stutz did all the flying.
04:00Even though this was the agreed-upon arrangement,
04:03Earhart later confided that she felt she was just baggage like a sack of potatoes.
04:08Then she added,
04:09Maybe someday I'll try it alone.
04:12Earhart's life and career have been celebrated for the past several decades
04:16on Amelia Earhart Day,
04:18which is held annually on July 24, her birthday, in 1897.
04:24Amelia Earhart possessed a shy, charismatic appeal
04:27that belied her determination and ambition.
04:31She dedicated much of her life to prove that women could excel in their chosen professions,
04:36just like men, and have equal value.
04:39Her mysterious disappearance, added to all of this,
04:43has given Earhart lasting recognition in popular culture
04:46as one of the world's most famous pilots.
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