Bessie coleman

Title supplied by cataloger.; Information provided with the image indicates that this portrait was used for her aviation license in 1923.Bessie Coleman (1896-1926) was the first African American woman to earn an aviator's license. Originally from Atlanta, Texas, Coleman moved to Chicago in 1915, where she first learned about flying from pilots returning from World War I. Gender and racial prejudice in the United States prevented Coleman for studying aviation, so she traveled to France, where…

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A young woman from rural east Texas, who grew up in a hardscrabble existence as one of 13 children born to poor sharecropper parents, became an unlikely choice to pave the way for future

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I love finding out random bits of knowledge and I recently ran into a couple of these Bessie Coleman postcards while being a tourist at Arlington cemetery. Now, I’ve noticed that it’s a…

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Backers of our Kickstarter project will get to vote on which new costumes we do for 2013. This series of posts is designed to briefly introduce the many notable women and legendary figures we’ll be considering. You’ve heard of Amelia Earhart, but do you know about Bessie Coleman? She was the world’s first black female […]

I did this a while back for a gallery show at Light Grey Art Lab. This is Bessie Coleman, a real historical lady whose awesomeness was unreal. &nb... Queen Bess