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  • you make me oh, better world u E o Hello and welcome to the power of we club Today we're celebrating Black History Month by hearing stories about some amazing African Americans.

  • Yeah, we've learned about leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks in former President Barack Obama.

  • He was the first black president of the United States.

  • Amazing.

  • Many people work so hard to help make our world a fair place for everyone.

  • Yeah, no matter where we're friends, hell, we speak.

  • Or how we look like the color of our skin or for who's in our next story.

  • Bessie Coleman and James Banning the first African American woman and man to become pilots and fly airplanes.

  • Some people thought they shouldn't learn to fly because of the color of their skin, but they didn't let that stop them.

  • Wow, they sound amazing.

  • I can't wait to learn all about them.

  • Well, here, let's watch this video of Bessie and James.

  • First flight.

  • Bessie and James take flight E Oh, hi.

  • Oh, hi.

  • I'm James Banning the first African American to get his pilot license in the United States.

  • Nice to meet you, James.

  • I'm Bessie Coleman.

  • the first African American woman to get her pilots license.

  • But I'm only pretending.

  • I'm only pretending.

  • Thio.

  • Hey.

  • Wanna have a plane race?

  • Sure.

  • Ready?

  • Oh, back when James Banning lived.

  • Ah, lot of people thought he shouldn't learn to fly a plane because of the color of his skin.

  • It was hard for Bessie Coleman to she had to go all the way to France to find a school that would teach her for France.

  • That's really far away.

  • But she didn't give up her dream.

  • And after she became a pilot, she came back home and her job was to do flying tricks with her airplane.

  • Wow.

  • Pilot James Banning did some cool stuff, too.

  • He made one of the longest flights ever, and I'm playing.

  • He made himself Whoa!

  • Bessie Coleman coming in for landing James Benning at the finish line.

  • It's a tie.

  • Let's fly some more.

  • Roger that.

  • Oh, wow.

  • See, James are amazing.

  • Yeah, Yeah.

  • They never gave up on their dream of becoming pilots.

  • Yeah, they make me so proud.

  • Basie and James were so brave.

  • Yeah, yeah.

  • Must have been an airplane.

  • Just like Jesse and James.

  • Oh, how about we start by building paper airplanes.

  • Oh, great idea, Gabrielle.

  • Oh, I'm not gonna pretend he's a pilot.

  • Just like Bessie Common and James.

  • Danny?

you make me oh, better world u E o Hello and welcome to the power of we club Today we're celebrating Black History Month by hearing stories about some amazing African Americans.

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