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

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.

Presents a chronicle in verse of the life of Bessie Coleman, the first African-American aviator, who dreamed of flying as a child in the cotton fields of Texas

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

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