The Chicago Defender publicized the event saying the "wonderful little woman" Bessie Coleman would do "heart thrilling stunts." According to a reporter from Kansas, as many as 3,000 people ...

Bessie Coleman was one of the first women in America to pilot an airplane, and, she claimed, the first Black woman aviator. A manicurist in Chicago before taking flying lessons in France shortly ...

Early 20th-century America didn’t offer many career paths to people like Bessie Coleman ... to Black people than Texas had been. In Chicago, Coleman was able to mingle with influential figures ...

Chicago Defender founder Robert Abbott encouraged ... After reading about the death of Bessie Coleman, the two were inspired to move to Chicago and apply to attend the Curtiss-Wright School ...