Before “Top Gun” and its blockbuster sequel, before “The Tuskegee Airmen” and “Red Tails” films, there were aviators and heroes like Bessie Coleman, the first African-American woman to earn a pilot’s license in 1921. Coleman studied at an aviation school in France because none of the aviation schools in the U.S. would accept her because she was Black.
Coleman, a woman of African-American and Native American heritage, was born in Texas, but moved to Chicago…
