Amelia Earhart wasn't afraid to break down most barriers. In 1928, she was the first woman to fly as solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Then, in 1932, she became the first woman to pilot a plane across that ocean. There weren't many female pilots back then, and her actions inspired other women to follow their dreams. This was especially important because there were few career paths available to women at that time. Amelia Earhart has inspired generations of women to do things that had never been done before, especially by women.

developed a way of playing jazz, as an instrumentalist and a vocalist,
recorded hit songs for five decades, which is still heard today on television and radio and in films;
wrote two autobiographies, more than ten magazine articles, hundreds of pages of memoirs, and thousands of letters;
appeared in more than thirty films
composed dozens of songs that have become jazz standards

Celebrities in the 1930s

Joan Crawford was a popular film, television, and theatre actor of the time. She started out as a flapper but she quickly rose to stardom. She usually played "rags-to-riches" roles, which inspired the people of the Depression . She was an example of the scandalous new trends for women during the 1930s

Amelia Earhart

Louis Armstrong

Joan Crawford