Coleman hadn’t been wearing her seatbelt, and she was tossed from the passenger seat at 3000 feet above the ground. She died at age 34. Bessie Coleman never achieved the same level of name ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African ... But the Windy City offered little more to an African American woman than did Texas. When Coleman decided she wanted to learn to fly, the discrimination ...

In celebration of the legendary aviator’s birthday, Powell and Coleman’s family recently launched a trailer for the documentary, Discovering Bessie Coleman and the biography, Queen of the Skies.