Bessie Coleman was born to sharecroppers in Texas on January 26, 1892. She was one of 13 siblings, and like the rest of Coleman clan, she was expected to help pick cotton on the farm as soon as ...
Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman ... Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination. She was born in Atlanta, Texas, one county over from Paris, Texas, where ...
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Great-niece of historic pilot in Bentonville
The Fly Oz Club invited the great-niece of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to hold a pilot's license, to ...