Amelia Earhart

The Life of :

AMELIA EARHART

"Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done - occasionally what

men have already not done thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging

other women toward greater independence of thought and action. Some such consideration was a

contributing reasons for my wanting to do what I so much want to do." - Amelia Earhart.

Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. She was the daughter of a

lawyer who worked for a railroad company. Amelia would always think that if she could be famous

It would be a pilot. When Amelia was six years old her and her parents went to a county fair and

as Amelia was walking around she saw this big airplane and she didn't want to leave the county fair.

Until the age of 12 she lived with her sister and her grandparents in Atchison, Kansas but she

decided to move back with her parents to various cities where her father was working until he was

dismissed off of the railroads. For a short period of time after the war Earhart took a medical

course at Columbia University in New York. She then joined her family in Los Angeles and

persuaded her parents into taking flying lessons immediately. Amelia's dreams were to own an

airplane and always be a famous airline pilot.

When Amelia was 17 years old she took a job at Massachusetts University Extension Program

instructing foreign students in English during her flying lessons. In 1920 Amelia went to an aerial

meet and was given a helmet and goggles, so Amelia boarded the open crock-pot biplane for a flight

over Los Angeles.

In 1927 an unknown pilot named Amelia Earhart captured the world's imagination by making

the first non-stop solo air flight across the Atlantic Ocean. In March 1937 Amelia lost control of a

plane while it was taking off.

Over nine years spanning her first and