But she got discouraged when she saw that the people lining up for aeronautical science classes were mostly white and ... the first Black woman aviator in the U.S. Coast Guard.

The origins of the Coast Guard standard are very obscure ... Cutter Service be marked by the distinctive emblem of that service, in blue and white, placed on a line with the lower edge of the ...

who went from a majority-Black high school and graduating from a HBCU to serving in a historically white, male dominated organization. "As I came up in the ranks of the Coast Guard, I saw very few ...