Bessie Coleman was an amazing woman. I've written multiple blog posts about Amelia Earhart, another female pilot, but history often overlooks Bessie Coleman. As a woman who was both black and Native American, Bessie Coleman is not treated with the same respect that Amelia Earhart was, even though Bessie Coleman began flying much earlier than Amelia Earhart. She was the first civilian African American pilot in the world. She spent her youth working in a cotton field after she was born in 1892. When she decided to become a pilot, no schools in America would take her. She was a black woman, and wasn't treated with respect. She went to France to go to flight school. Bessie left for France in 1921, and learned to fly. She used her position for good once she gained fame. She refused to perform unless the audiences were desegregated, and donated the money she earned to start a flight school for black people.
https://www.nationalaviation.org/our-enshrinees/coleman-bessie/
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