Bessie Coleman made the last payment on her new airplane and arranged for the second-hand Jenny to be flown to Jacksonville, Florida, site of her next air show. “Brave Bessie” was born in 1893 less ...

The first quarter celebrated writer, performer and social activist Maya Angelou. Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Mexican American journalist Jovita Idar and Bessie Coleman, the first African ...

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.