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Bessie Coleman was an early American civil aviatrix and the first African American and Native American woman to have a pilot license. She was notorious for her flying tricks and died in a plane ...

Bessie Coleman was the first ... Throughout her flying career, Coleman saved enough money that she was able to purchase her own plane, a Jenny – JN-4 with an OX-5 engine, according to the ...

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Gaining advantage, one pilot would shoot another out of the air like skeet. That road O’Hare is on? It’s named for Bessie Coleman, who 100 years ago became the first Black woman pilot in ...

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Among the cloth wings of early flight at the Air and Space Museum, Cochran started the history lesson. “Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman to be a licensed pilot,” she explained.

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