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

she moved to France to enroll in flight school. Less than a year later, she returned home as the first Black woman and the ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman ... When they came home, they shared stories of women in France who were able to learn how to fly planes, according to the source.

Bessie Coleman stands with her aircraft in 1922 ... to be wives and mothers—very few had careers. It was different in France, as Bessie learned from a relative who had served in the Army ...

France became Coleman’s only option ... That road O’Hare is on? It’s named for Bessie Coleman, who 100 years ago became the first Black woman pilot in America Coleman’s uniform, which ...

In early May of 1926, thousands of people stood outside a train station on Chicago’s South Side and waited as a casket was solemnly unloaded. A military regiment stood by to escort the dearly departed ...

But for Bessie Coleman, a young girl of Black and Indigenous ... And so, recalling her brother’s comments about the women of France learning how to fly, Coleman chose to follow her dreams ...

Bessie Coleman (1892-1926), was an early African American pilot. She started flying in France at the Ecole d’Aviation des Freres Caudon at Le Crotoy. From 1922 to 1926, she did exhibition flying ...

Born in 1892, Bessie Coleman received her international pilot’s license in 1921 in France following her rejection from every aviation school in the U.S. for being a woman and for being Black.

The recent flight from Phoenix to Dallas celebrated the 100th anniversary of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license. Coleman had to learn to fly in France ...

she moved to France to enroll in flight school. Less than a year later, she returned home as the first Black woman and the first Native American woman pilot in aviation history. Bessie Coleman was ...

Known as “Brave Bessie” or “Queen Bess ... des Frères Caudron at Le Crotoy, one of France’s most prestigious flight schools. Coleman spent seven months learning loop-de-loops and ...