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Bessie Coleman
By: Olivia & Lucia
EARLY LIFE
Early Life
Bessie Coleman was born on January 26, 1892 to Susan & George Coleman. She had 12 other siblings with 13 kids total in the house! She grew up in Waxahatchie, Texas attending a segragated school before later moving to Chicago at the age of 23 with two of her brothers.
BESSIE COLEMAN PORTRAIT
PORTRAIT
Bessie's Stuggles
Struggles
She enrolled in Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University in 1910 but had to drop out because she didn’t have the money to pay for school. Eventually, in 1915, she moved to Illinois to worked in a barber shop painting fingernails. In the 1920s, she was told that, "the air is the only place free from prejudice". She faced many struggles because of her gender and race.
Bessie
ACHIEVEMENTS
Achievements
After attending a French flight school which allowed women and People of Color to learn to fly, Bessie Coleman got her pilot's liscense on June 15, 1921. She learned a whole new language to become a pilot! She later started doing shows, doing tricks in the plane and other stunning accomplishments. Bessie Coleman was a record-breaking superstar, even if it wasn't during her time.
Plane she flew
Bessie Coleman flew biplanes like this one in the 1920s.
BESSIE'S END
Death
On April 20, 1926 in Jacksonville Florida, tregedy struck. Bessie Coleman passed away at the age of 34. She died doing what she loved best, flying. She was flying with a man called William Wills, when the plane went out of control, and flipped over. Bessie was not wearing a seatbelt and fell out of the plane. Wills also did not survive, with the plane spinning out of control, crashing from almost 3,000 feet in the air.
SOURCES
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bessie-Coleman
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flygirls-bessie-coleman/
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/bessie-coleman