Hall of Fame / The Registry / Bessie Coleman
Plate 28
Aviation · Entrepreneurship · Women’s History
Bessie Coleman
1892 – 1926
On 15 June 1921, Coleman became the first African American woman to earn an international pilot’s licence. Unable to obtain flight training in the United States because of racial and gender discrimination, she trained in France.
- •First African American woman to earn an international pilot’s licence
- •1921
- •Trained in France after being denied flight training in the U.S.
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