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

her plane -- operated by her mechanic -- flipped. Coleman, who was not wearing a seatbelt, plummeted to her death. She was 34."We hope through this doll more people will discover Bessie's story ...

Getty Images Bessie Coleman in her bi-plane, circa 1920. In September 1922, Coleman debuted her first aerial stunt show in Garden City, New York, during an era when “barnstorming” captivated ...

If people of color were forced to enter through a side or back gate, then Coleman threatened to keep her plane on the ground. The organizers relented. The night before Bessie Coleman died, saw her ...

Coleman was forbidden in the United States to learn how to fly a plane, so she traveled to France to learn. She returned as the first African-American woman pilot in America. Bessie Coleman left ...

On April 23, 1926, 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 ...

Bessie Coleman was the first Black woman to earn ... from pilots and flight attendants to gate agents, cargo crew, plane mechanics and even air traffic controllers. They were led by Captain ...

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 ...