"Originally published as 'Bessie Coleman: first black woman pilot' in 2001"--Copyright page.

Here is the brief but intense life of Bessie Coleman, America's first African American woman aviator. Born in 1892 in Atlanta, Texas, she became known as “Que

This book discusses the life of the determined African American woman who went all the way to France in order to earn her pilot's license in 1921.

When she was growing up in Waxahachie, Texas, in the early 1900s, young Bessie Coleman had to do without a lot of things. Because she was black, she went to inf

Historical Fiction, Life of Aviatrix Bessie Coleman, first American to earn an international pilot's license and first African American woman to own a pilot's l