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Bessie Coleman (Pioneering (First African American/Native American…

- - - - Legacy
        
        1995, U.S. Postal Service issued a “Bessie Coleman” stamp commemorating “her singular accomplishment in becoming the world's first African American pilot and, by definition, an American legend."
        
        1977, Female pilots in Chicago create the Bessie Coleman Aviators Club
- - - - She grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination
      - Her Home is in in Atlanta, Texas, United States
      - According to Bessie Coleman. Biography.com,"At 12 years old, Coleman began attending the Missionary Baptist Church in Texas. After graduating, she embarked on a journey to Oklahoma to attend the Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University (Langston University), where she completed only one term due to financial constraints."
    - - Birth Date: January 26, 1892
      - Death Date: April 30, 1926
      - Amount of Years She lived: 34 years
    - - Her Father: George Coleman
        
        Native/ African-American's descendant
        
        worked as sharecroppers
        
        left the family in search of better opportunities when Bessie was a child.
      - Her Mother: Susan Coleman
        
        African-American.
      - Siblings: Elois Coleman Patterson, Georgia Coleman, John Coleman, Nilus Coleman, Walter Coleman, Isaiah Coleman
        
        Her mother did her best to support the family and the children contributed as soon as they were old enough.
      - Bessie Coleman was married to Claude Glenn, and they separated