she moved to France to enroll in flight school. Less than a year later, she returned home as the first Black woman and the ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American ... Coleman decided to learn to fly in France. Coleman learned French at a Berlitz school in the Chicago loop, withdrew the savings she had ...

Bessie Coleman became the first Black woman to earn ... Bessie learned French and headed to France in the early 1900s. She officially received her pilot's license from the Federation Aeronautique ...

Bessie Coleman made the last payment on her new airplane and arranged for the second-hand Jenny to be flown to Jacksonville, Florida, site of her next air show. “Brave Bessie” was born in 1893 less ...