The First Black Women to Join the RAF (Royal Air Force)

Lilian Bader (18 February 1918–13 March 2015)

This great woman has changed the way that women, as well as the soldiers of a black decent, are seen around the world. To give a bit of context, after the first world war racism and segregation in the UK have started to lower down and become a thing of the past. In lower-income areas, it would still be a thing however those that were represented as racists would not have a very good life coming along. She had to overcome racism and discrimination many times to get to the place she was proud to be.

This lovely lady that she was at her time came from Liverpool and sadly she had to grow up seeing the atrocities that took place in the first world war. After the war, she has decided that she wants to protect her home and country the best way that the United Kingdom knew at the time which was by air. Soldiers of the Royal Air Force have always been seen as higher than any other soldiers and in the first world war they were even appreciated more than movie stars.

How She came to be

She first got a job at a Navy, Army and Air Forces Institute canteen in Yorkshire and spent two years until she has been kicked out for coming from a West Indian background. After that, she has done some research to…