While the Tuskegee Airmen have become icons in the history of American aviation, fewer people know the story of Bessie ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.

The “Summer Road Trip” uses Bessie Coleman, the first African American to earn a pilot’s license, as inspiration to build a paper biplane. National Air and Space Museum Growing up the kid of ...

has released a documentary trailer and book biography in collaboration with the family of Bessie Coleman, the first ...

The red shelf is special. Sitting on the shelf from Angelou’s library is a Barbie of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot’s license.