SLUG:pg-history6 DATE:Feb. 28, 2008 CREDIT: Mark Gail/TWP Up

SLUG:pg-history6 DATE:Feb. 28, 2008 CREDIT: Mark Gail/TWP Upper Malrboro, Md. ASSIGNMENT#: 198506 EDITED BY: mg Perrywood elementary school fourth grader Mia Barnes portrayed Bessie Coleman, first African American woman to become an airplane pilot, and the first American woman to hold an international pilot license at the school's third annual living museum of African-American history Thursday. At the two-day event in which 24 fourth and fiifth graders shared who they were to classmates who toured the museum in the hallways with the help of costumes, artifacts and posters. (Photo by Mark Gail/The The Washington Post via Getty Images)