Bessie Coleman Role Model
Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman was the first African American female pilot. Starting off in a racist Texas Bessie worked as a laundress after she dropped out of college. At the age of twenty three she decide to move in in with her brother in Chicago to find a better life. After hearing stories of World War I pilots she had a sudden interest in flying. Due to discrimination Bessie could not go to an aviation school in America, so she moved to France to pursue her dreams. After this she came back to America and became a stunt show pilot. Not only is she a role model for African Americans but also to women.
Bessie Coleman was born January 26, 1892 in Atlanta, Texas to a poor family of sharecroppers. She was one of thirteen children of Susan and George Coleman. According to Roni Morales: “Bessie’s father, being three-fourths Indian, moved his family to Oklahoma Territory when Bessie was still a baby. Susan Coleman, an African American, wanted to move back to Texas. By the time Bessie was 2 years old the family was living in Waxahachie, a town of fewer than 4,000 inhabitants.”(Morales 3)
Her father left due to rights he had in the Oklahoma territory. With her father's departure, her older brothers leaving her mother to care for four girls under the age of nine. Susan Coleman worked as a housekeeper and cook for the Mr. And Mrs. Elwin …show more content…
Books have been written about Bessie, including children's books that encourage kids to follow their dreams. In 1990 a street in Chicago was renamed Bessie Coleman Drive and Bessie Coleman day was declared on May 2, 1992 in Chicago. The United States Postal Service issued a thirty-two-cent commemorative stamp in her honor in 1995. In 1995, a group of women got together and decided to make a foundation to keep African American women pilots together. They call themselves "The Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman was the first African American female pilot. Starting off in a racist Texas Bessie worked as a laundress after she dropped out of college. At the age of twenty three she decide to move in in with her brother in Chicago to find a better life. After hearing stories of World War I pilots she had a sudden interest in flying. Due to discrimination Bessie could not go to an aviation school in America, so she moved to France to pursue her dreams. After this she came back to America and became a stunt show pilot. Not only is she a role model for African Americans but also to women.
Bessie Coleman was born January 26, 1892 in Atlanta, Texas to a poor family of sharecroppers. She was one of thirteen children of Susan and George Coleman. According to Roni Morales: “Bessie’s father, being three-fourths Indian, moved his family to Oklahoma Territory when Bessie was still a baby. Susan Coleman, an African American, wanted to move back to Texas. By the time Bessie was 2 years old the family was living in Waxahachie, a town of fewer than 4,000 inhabitants.”(Morales 3)
Her father left due to rights he had in the Oklahoma territory. With her father's departure, her older brothers leaving her mother to care for four girls under the age of nine. Susan Coleman worked as a housekeeper and cook for the Mr. And Mrs. Elwin …show more content…
Books have been written about Bessie, including children's books that encourage kids to follow their dreams. In 1990 a street in Chicago was renamed Bessie Coleman Drive and Bessie Coleman day was declared on May 2, 1992 in Chicago. The United States Postal Service issued a thirty-two-cent commemorative stamp in her honor in 1995. In 1995, a group of women got together and decided to make a foundation to keep African American women pilots together. They call themselves "The Bessie Coleman