Bessie Coleman became the world's first Black woman to earn an international pilot's license in 1921 after crossing the Atlantic to train in France when every American school refused her.
TaildraggerHow Bessie Coleman, a Chicago manicurist, sailed to France in 1920 to become the first Black woman in the world to earn a pilot's license.
TaildraggerHow Bessie Coleman sailed to France in 1920 to become the first Black woman in the world to earn a pilot's license.
TaildraggerBessie Coleman crossed the Atlantic and learned French to earn the pilot's license America denied her, becoming the first Black woman to fly.
TaildraggerHow Bessie Coleman became the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license - by learning French and sailing to France when no U.S. school would teach her.
TaildraggerHow Bessie Coleman crossed an ocean and learned French to become the first Black woman in the world to earn a pilot's license.
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