Tag: Bessie Coleman

The original fly girl: Bessie Coleman Centennial Aviation Film Festival set for May 2 at Bult Field 

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[Read More…]

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