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 ... Coleman decided to learn to fly in France. Coleman learned French at a Berlitz school in the Chicago loop, withdrew the savings she had ...

On April 23, 1926, Bessie Coleman made the last payment on her ... Robert Sengstacke Abbott told the ambitious nail clipper that France was the place where she could get her dream off the ground.

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