Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman ... Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination. She was born in Atlanta, Texas, one county over from Paris, Texas, where ...

Born in Atlanta, Texas, Coleman moved to Chicago around ... years pilots dropped floral tributes to her from the sky. Bessie Coleman Drive at O’Hare International Airport is named in her honor ...

Bessie Coleman was born to sharecroppers in Texas on January 26, 1892. She was one of 13 siblings, and like the rest of Coleman clan, she was expected to help pick cotton on the farm as soon as ...