Bessie Coleman was born to sharecroppers in Texas on January 26, 1892. She was one of 13 siblings, and like the rest of ...

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 ...

The Fly Oz Club invited the great-niece of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to hold a pilot's license, to ...