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 ...

When Bessie got through, she started over again, to figure how the plane would perform with one engine dead, two engines dead, etc. During these theoretical “flights,” the young mathematicians ...

Britain’s Got Talent star Bessie Cursons has made an impressive acting career for herself, after rising to fame on the first ever season. The then-11-year-old made her stage debut on Simon ...