Bessie Coleman was an ambitious young woman, inspired by Black pilots in World War I. Her accomplishments inspired ...
February is Black History Month and KTBS 3/KPXJ CW 21 continue to salute the contributions of African Americans in labor with ...
No aviation schools in America would teach Bessie Coleman how to fly in the 1920s. So, she sailed to France and became the first African American and the first Native American woman to earn a pilot's ...
For a number of years starting in 1931, black pilots from Chicago instituted an annual fly over of her grave. In 1977 a group of African American women pilots established the Bessie Coleman ...