Bessie Coleman was determined to fly. 🛩️ When flight schools in the U.S. wouldn’t accept her, Coleman learned French, traveled abroad, and enrolled in a French flight school. An accomplished stunt pilot, she quickly became famous for her “loop-the-loops.” Coleman went on to become the first African American and first Native American woman pilot in the U.S. You can hear more of her story, as well as the stories of other pioneering Black pilots, on Black Wings. It’s now streaming on Smithsonian C
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