Directory of Coleman, Bessie Resources

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This category lists pages and sites about the life of Bessie Coleman (1893-1926). Coleman was the first Black woman to fly a plane and the first licensed African-American pilot in the world. She was killed in an accident during a flight show in Jacksonville, Florida.

Resources in This Category

• Aeronautics - Bessie Coleman

  http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/coleman.htm
  Biography provided by the Aeronautics Learning Laboratory for Science, Technology, and Research.

• Bessie Coleman

  http://www.bessiecoleman.com/
  Documents the achievements of the world's first licensed black pilot.

• Bessie Coleman

  http://firstflight.org/bessie-coleman/
  Simple biography and sketch from the First Flight Shrine.

• Bessie Coleman Biography

  http://www.notablebiographies.com/Co-Da/Coleman-Bessie.html
  Information about the aviator provided by the Encyclopedia of World Biography.

• Fly Girls: Bessie Coleman

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/peopleevents/pandeAMEX02.html
  Biographical sketch and portrait from PBS.

• The Ninety Nines: Bessie Coleman

  http://www.ninety-nines.org/bessie-coleman.htm
  Short biography of the world's first African-American woman pilot honored with U.S. Stamp.

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