It felt like a homecoming. Thousands of onlookers cheered wildly as daredevil pilot Bessie Coleman arced her Curtiss Jenny biplane into a spiral above a Houston field. The weather was scorching ...

Hopson also has written a book about her inspiration to fly — aviatrix Bessie Coleman ... “Carole Hopson did her homework,” she said. Hopson's story is empowering, said Rayven Peterson ...

Aviation trailblazer Captain Beth Powell, founder of Queen B Production LLC, has released a documentary trailer and book biography in collaboration with the family of Bessie Coleman, the first ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Students at Paxon School for Advanced Studies gathered on Tuesday to pay tribute to Bessie Coleman, a pioneering figure in aviation history. Coleman holds the distinction of ...

Early 20th-century America didn’t offer many career paths to people like Bessie Coleman. It was a time when women were discouraged from working outside domestic spheres, and opportunities for ...

The Chicago Public Library’s (CPL) Bessie Coleman branch, located on East 63rd Street ... There’s a lot of children that come in here to do their homework… some of them have come in and observed us as ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license. Coleman, who earned nicknames such as "Brave Bessie" and "Queen Bessie," spent her life teaching others about ...

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 ...

But for Bessie Coleman, a young girl of Black and Indigenous ancestry growing up in the poor town of Waxahachie, Texas, Icarus wasn’t the only fictional figure who kept her grounded. She also ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - The Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum is shining a light on Bessie Coleman, the first black female pilot in the United States. The Bessie Coleman Aviation All-Stars ...

When you ask someone about famous women from the early days of aviation, they will likely mention Amelia Earhart—but rarely Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to earn a pilot ...

Bessie Coleman teaches Yadina how to keep going./The trio meets King Sejong the Great. Bessie Coleman shows Yadina that if she wants to hike to the top of the hill, she has to keep going for it./ ...