The U.S. Mint has issued new quarters celebrating the contributions of African American women. Ida B. Wells, Maya Angelou, Bessie Coleman, and Pauli Murray are featured.

CEDAR FALLS -- The Cedar Valley Civil War Roundtable will discuss the Battle of Cool Spring at its Wednesday meeting. At 7 ...

Aerospace and aviation have seen leaps in technological advancements like few other industries, save perhaps the medical ...

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

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.

Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman to hold a pilot ... “[Her brothers] were World War One veterans, and they recalled seeing black women pilots flying in France,” explained Dorothy ...

Coleman earned her license from the Caudron Brothers School of Aviation in Le Crotoy, France, in 1921. “Brave Bessie” was known for her daredevil flying tricks in the sky like the “loop-the ...

Bessie Coleman was one of the first women in America to pilot an airplane, and, she claimed, the first Black woman aviator. A manicurist in Chicago before taking flying lessons in France shortly ...

This legacy started with the work of Bessie Coleman ... Chicago Defender founder Robert Abbott encouraged Coleman to go to France where she was accepted by the Caudron Brothers School of Aviation ...

Coleman was forbidden in the United States to learn how to fly a plane, so she traveled to France to learn. She returned as the first African-American woman pilot in America. Bessie Coleman left ...

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 ...