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TEXAS HISTORY MINUTE: Bessie Coleman, of East, Texas, first African American female pilot


TEXAS HISTORY MINUTE: Bessie Coleman, of East, Texas, first African American female pilot
By Ken Bridges
Special to the Herald Democrat
 Bessie Coleman had said as a child that she wanted to make something of herself.  For an African-American at the turn of the century, there were few opportunities for that to happen.  With the invention of airplanes, she found a magnificent new calling as the first African-American woman to become a pilot.  As a famous stunt pilot in the 1920s, she toured the country, and all eyes looked skyward to see her perform.
Coleman was born outside Atlanta, in deep East Texas, in January 1892 in a one-room cabin.  She was the twelfth of thirteen children in a family of sharecroppers. Her father was part black and part Cherokee and her mother was a former slave.  At the age of two, the family moved to Waxahachie, where she would attend school.  She would walk four miles to the one-room school where she developed a talent f ....

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