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Stringfield, Bessie, 1911-1993

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Personal name headingStringfield, Bessie, 1911-1993
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Variant(s)Stringfield, Betsy Leonora, 1911-1993
Ellis, Betsy Leonora, 1911-1993
Found inGill, Joel Christian. Bessie Stringfield, 2016: ECIP galley (first African American woman to ride across the United States on her motorcycle in 1927)
Blackpast.org, June 28, 2016 (Bessie Stringfield (1911-1993); the first African American woman to ride her motorcycle across the United States; born Betsy Leonora Ellis on February 9, 1911, in Kingston, Jamaica; she wed and divorced six times, keeping the name of her third husband, Arthur Stringfield; she died in Opa-laka, Florida, in 1993 at the age of eighty-two)