Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman ... It was soldiers returning from World War I with wild tales of flying exploits who first interested Coleman in aviation.

Bessie Coleman was born to sharecroppers in Texas ... Chicagoans living near Lincoln Cemetery have likely heard the sounds of jets flying overhead on April 30. Every year on the anniversary ...

Bessie Coleman was one of the first women in America to pilot an airplane, and, she claimed, the first Black woman aviator. A manicurist in Chicago before taking flying lessons in France shortly ...

Coleman earned her license from the Caudron Brothers School of Aviation in Le Crotoy, France, in 1921. “Brave Bessie” was ...

Coleman’s flying stunts were a sight to see and would ... a mechanical issue with the plane caused it to crash throwing Bessie Coleman from the plane to her death. (Courtesy Mitch Hemann ...