How Bessie Coleman, a Texas sharecropper's daughter, sailed to France in 1920 to earn the pilot's license America denied her.
TaildraggerHow Bessie Coleman sailed to France in 1920 to become the first Black woman and first Native American woman to earn a pilot's license.
TaildraggerHow Bessie Coleman crossed an ocean and learned French to become the first Black woman in the world to earn a pilot's license.
TaildraggerHow Bessie Coleman crossed the Atlantic to become the first Black and Native American woman to earn a pilot's license.
TaildraggerBessie Coleman became the world's first Black female pilot in 1921 after every American flight school turned her away - so she crossed the Atlantic to earn her license in France.
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