Overlooked No More: Bessie Coleman, Pioneering African-American Aviatrix

Bessie Coleman was one of the earliest female pilots, and a true pioneer. Check out this article to learn more…

George Rinhart/Corbis, via Getty Images Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman to earn a pilot’s license, thrilling crowds by performing dangerous maneuvers in a rickety airplane and representing, literally, […]

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