Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.
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Bessie Coleman, the Black Cherokee Woman Pilot Who Made Aviation HistoryEarly 20th-century America didn’t offer many career paths to people like Bessie Coleman. It was a time when women were ...
Powell, who made history in 2022 when she led ... the world.” Coleman earned her license from the Caudron Brothers School of Aviation in Le Crotoy, France, in 1921. “Brave Bessie” was ...
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