Bessie Coleman

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GLC#
GLC10109
Type
Images
Date
1922
Title
Bessie Coleman
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
Primary time period
Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
Sub-Era
The Roaring Twenties

One photograph of Bessie Coleman with her airplane dated 1922. Bessie Coleman was born to a family of sharecroppers, picking cotton as a child. She became the first African-American woman (and first Native American) to hold a pilot license by earning her license while training in France because she was not allowed to earn such license in the United States. Bessie was also the first Black person to earn an international pilot’s license.

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