For a number of years starting in 1931, black pilots from Chicago instituted an annual fly over of her grave. In 1977 a group of African American women pilots established the Bessie Coleman ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 30, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National ...

Bessie Coleman made the last payment on her new airplane and arranged for the second-hand Jenny to be flown to Jacksonville, Florida, site of her next air show. “Brave Bessie” was born in 1893 less ...