Updated 5/14/24
July 24 is National Amelia Earhart Day, a day that honors her birth as well as her achievements.
Born on July 24, 1897 in Pitsco’s home state, and more specifically in Atchison, KS, Amelia Mary Earhart began challenging the notion of what girls could do at a young age, rejecting expected female norms she climbed trees and hunted rats with a .22 rifle. She even collected news clippings about women succeeding in traditional male fields.
