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

Related video above: Arkansas Air and Military Museum celebrates Bessie Coleman ... career was cut short. During a practice for a May Day celebration in Jacksonville, Florida, her plane ...

Bessie Coleman, the first African American and first Native American woman to have a pilot’s license, died at the young age ...

They came in droves to honor Bessie Coleman ... The next morning, Coleman and the mechanic did a test run over the airfield. The mechanic flew the plane while Coleman sat in the back seat. She ...

Early 20th-century America didn’t offer many career paths to people like Bessie Coleman ... left in the engine caused the ...

In honor of the 100th anniversary of Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license, American Airlines operated a flight out of Dallas ... causing the plane to crash, PBS reported.

BESSIE COLEMAN ... states.But her career was cut short. During a practice for a May Day celebration in Jacksonville, Florida, her plane -- operated by her mechanic -- flipped. Coleman, who was ...