Bessie Coleman was the first African-American ... Coleman decided to learn to fly in France. Coleman learned French at a Berlitz school in the Chicago loop, withdrew the savings she had ...

she moved to France to enroll in flight school. Less than a year later, she returned home as the first Black woman and the ...

Bessie Coleman became the first ... After American aviation schools denied her admission because she was a Black female, Bessie learned French and headed to France in the early 1900s.

Coleman earned her license from the Caudron Brothers School of Aviation in Le Crotoy, France, in 1921. “Brave Bessie” was ...