Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman in world history to earn a pilot’s license and became a national sensation ... meeting noted airplane designer Anthony Fokker in Holland and flying ...

On take-off, Wills flew the plane with Coleman in the other seat. ... The Bessie Coleman Commemorative is the 18th in the U.S. Postal Service Black Heritage series.

Two young Oklahoma pilots became the first black aviators to cross the continent by air when they flew from Los Angeles to New York in 1932 in an airplane put together from junkyard parts.

Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license. In the 1920s, getting a pilot's license as a Black woman in the United States was impossible; so Coleman moved to France ...

On June 15, 1921, Bessie Coleman, the daughter of a woman who had once been enslaved in Texas, earned a brevet, a pilot’s license, from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, securing ...

“I wanted to recreate the whole Bessie Coleman thing. ... “I would absolutely love to fly in a Red Tail, an airplane that the Tuskegee Airmen flew. That would probably be my number one.

Bessie Coleman took to the sky as the first African American woman to earn a pilot’s license and made history as she flew. She later went on to earn names like, 'Brave Bessie' and 'Queen Bess.' Gytree ...

DC: Well, for Bessie Coleman, it's all about discrimination. In the early 19 teens, discrimination, segregation were legal at the time, certainly in the United States, and there was no opportunity ...

So while Coleman flew high in France, back home, her beloved planes had become a tool of suppression. ... Bessie Coleman in her bi-plane, circa 1920. In September 1922, ...