Bessie Coleman: Daring to Fly

High in the sky, Bessie Cole­man could soar like a bird. She was free―at least until she land­ed. As a black woman in the 1920s, she was­n’t allowed to learn how to fly. Forced to trav­el to France to learn, she became the first African Amer­i­can woman to earn her pilot’s license. Whether she was wing-walk­ing, giv­ing a speech, para­chut­ing, or fly­ing, Cole­man inspired peo­ple with her brav­ery and resolve.