Life was a day-to-day struggle, as she took in washing while little Bessie and a sister picked cotton. But no one missed a meal in the loving home. Illiteracy did not blind the single mother to ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American ... 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 ...

Bessie Harvey, 1987 (photo by William Arnett, courtesy the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, used with permission) FS: Did you or any of your siblings play any role in her art making? Or was it very ...