Aviation trailblazer Captain Beth Powell, founder of Queen B Production LLC, has released a documentary trailer and book ...

As HistoryNet notes, the books she wanted to pick up were ... she decided to prove him and everyone else wrong, from Bessie Coleman's biography: You [N-word] women ain't never goin' to fly ...

For more information about the book and documentary ... She is the author of a biography on Bessie Coleman and the producer and director of Discovering Bessie Coleman, a documentary celebrating ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.

Rich Three-quarter left front view, close-up, of Curtiss JN-4 Jenny on the ground; pilot Bessie Coleman poses in flying ... is available from Smithsonian Books. Visit Smithsonian Books ...

The recent flight from Phoenix to Dallas celebrated the 100th anniversary of Bessie Coleman, the first African ... "She wasn't in the history books. No one knew about her." There are fewer than ...

NRP's Michel Martin talks to author Carole Hopson, who's written a book about Bessie Coleman, who in 1921 became the first Black woman to get a pilot's license. The book is called: "A Pair of Wings.

Despite fierce obstacles in her path, the Black female aviator became a hero that would pave the way for generations to come David Kindy - Correspondent “Bessie Coleman (above: with her Curtiss ...

The daughter of sharecropper in rural Texas, Bessie Coleman grew up picking cotton ... film in American history that was based on the book, 'The Clansman'. All across the South, and parts of ...