Eula Pearl Carter Scott

Eula Pearl Carter Scott (1915–2005) became the youngest pilot in the United States on September 12, 1929, when she took her first solo flight.[1] She learned to fly from Wiley Post.[2] She was a stunt pilot.[2] In 1972 she became one of the Chickasaw Nation's first community health representatives; her mother was an original enrollee of the Chickasaw Nation.[2] Scott was elected to the Chickasaw legislature in 1983 and served three terms there.[1]

All her flying experience is included in the "History of Aviation Collection on Women" at Texas University in Dallas.[1] She is also listed in the 1978-79 edition of Personalities of the South, the 1989-90 edition of Outstanding Women of America, and in the Chickasaw Historical Section of the Memphis Magazine.[1] In 2014 a portrait of her was unveiled in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.[3]

She was inducted into the Chickasaw Nation Hall of Fame, the International Women's Air & Space Museum Hall of Fame, and the Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall of Fame, and is a charter member of the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian.[4]

There is a documentary about her titled Pearl Carter Scott: On Top of the World, and a non-documentary film about her titled Pearl.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Chickasaw Nation Hall of Fame - Eula Pearl Carter Scott". Hof.chickasaw.net. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  2. 1 2 3 oklahoma state senate staff. "Oklahoma State Senate - News". Oksenate.gov. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  3. ↑ "Portrait of Celebrated Aviator Pearl Carter Scott Unveiled in Oklahoma - ICTMN.com". Indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com. 2015-11-04. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  4. ↑ News 12 Staff. "Portrait of famous aviator and Chickasaw legislator unveiled at Capitol". Kxii.com. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  5. ↑ "Pearl Carter Scott documentary airs on OETA tonight". News OK. 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2015-11-09.

Further reading

Never Give Up! The Life of Pearl Carter Scott, by Paul F. Lambert (2007)

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