American Airlines is saluting Bessie Coleman with an All-Black female crew! On Friday, American Airlines celebrated the 100th anniversary of Bessie earning her pilot license in 1921, making her the ...

Despite fierce obstacles in her path, the Black female aviator became a hero that would pave the way for generations to come David Kindy - Correspondent “Bessie Coleman (above: with her Curtiss JN-4 ...

It’s been over 100 years since Bessie Coleman took her first public flight in the U.S., and now she is finally getting the recognition she deserves. This month, American Airlines celebrated the 100th ...

TUKWILA, Wash. — February is Black History Month. But for a woman making her way to Tukwila this weekend, black history is a family legacy. Before Amelia Earhart ever got her pilot’s license, Bessie ...

Early 20th-century America didn’t offer many career paths to people like Bessie Coleman. It was a time when women were discouraged from working outside domestic spheres, and opportunities for women of ...

What does Bessie Coleman have in common with Tina Turner, Jane Goodall and Madam C.J. Walker? As of Wednesday, it’s a Barbie doll. Barbie officially announced the launch of its Bessie Coleman doll on ...

An all-Black female crew operated an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Phoenix in honor of Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to earn a pilot’s license in 1921. The airline hosted the Bessie ...

Bessie Coleman was the first Black woman to hold a pilot's license. A hundred years after her first public flight in 1922, an all-Black, all-female crew flew from Dallas to Phoenix in her honor. Good ...

The daughter of sharecropper in rural Texas, Bessie Coleman grew up picking cotton and eventually became the first African American woman aviator. Coleman became a media sensation with her daredevil ...

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