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

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.

When Palm Springs Unified School District unanimously approved Advanced Placement African American Studies ... figures like Madam C.J. Walker, Bessie Coleman, Phillis Wheatley, Chinua Achebe ...

“The airplane was inspired by Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to obtain a pilot’s license in the 1920s,” Williams noted. “Her life story has been really powerful and ...

but also Bessie Coleman, the first African-American female pilot; and Katherine Sui Fu Cheung, the first Chinese American to fly. To get a better feel for what piloting a plane is all about ...

including the legendary Harry Houdini who defied the laws of nature with his mind-bending magic tricks and Bessie Coleman, the first African-American stunt-pilot. And then there’s Marie Tussaud ...

The act also established a government and constitution for the territory. 1926 – Bessie Coleman, the first African American and Native American woman to hold a pilot license, died at age 34 when her ...

Arkansas Air & Military Museum looks plain from the outside, but step into this old wooden hangar and you’ll find rare warbirds with real battle scars, a Vietnam chopper that still smells like jungle, ...