Less than a year later, she returned home as the first Black woman and the first Native American woman pilot in aviation history. Bessie Coleman was born to sharecroppers in Texas on January 26 ...

February is Black History Month and KTBS 3/KPXJ CW 21 continue to salute the contributions of African Americans in labor with the help of Bossier Parish high school students. Bessie Coleman was ...

Written by Anya Thompson] The Black History Month celebration at Cedarbridge Academy began on February 3rd and was extended ...

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 ...

For Black History Month and Women’s History Month ... bomber jacket and boots, embodying Bessie Coleman for first graders at Gateway’s Ramsey Elementary. Elizabeth Coleman, better known ...

Discovering Bessie Coleman and the biography, Queen of the Skies. Powell, who made history in 2022 when she led an all-Black female flight crew as a commercial airline captain, is honored to share ...

Bessie Coleman became the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license in 1921 American Airlines is saluting Bessie Coleman with an All-Black female crew! On Friday, American Airlines celebrated ...

Let’s look skyward for a little bit of inspiration before Black History Month concludes ... Here are their inspiring stories. Bessie Coleman was one of the first women in America to pilot ...

Paxon students honor Bessie Coleman with artistic tribute Published: February 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM Tags: black history month , bessie coleman , jacksonville , paxon school for advanced studies ...

Note: A previous version of this story ran in December 2023. In the 1920s and ’30s, Chicago was home for the burgeoning Black aviation community, a place of opportunity that was central to Black ...