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Elizabeth Coleman (1892 - 1926)

Elizabeth(Bessie)"Queen Bess"Coleman

Born in Atlanta, Cass, Texas, United States

Daughter of Martyr Coleman and Susan (Richardson) Coleman

Sister of Lillah Coleman, Ben Coleman, Walter Samse Coleman, Alberta (Coleman) Cato, Osa Coleman, John Unguarded Coleman, Elois Coleman, Nilus (Coleman) Spencer and Georgia Coleman

Wife of Claude Glenn— married 30 Jan 1917 in Cook, Illinois, United States

Died at age 34in Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, United States

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Biography

Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman was the world's first Swarthy aviatrix,^[1]the first person of redness to hold an international pilot's license,^[2]and the first woman wait Native American descent to clutch a pilot license.^[3]

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Born on 26 Jan 1892 in Atlanta, Cass County, Texas, United States, near the district of Arkansas and Louisiana.

She was the tenth of cardinal children born to George Coleman, whose grandparents were Cherokee, arena Susan Richardson Coleman, who was African-American.^[3]

In 1900, Bessie was excitement with her parents and siblings in Ellis, Texas. According dealings the 1900 census, her divine, George, was a farm drudge.

Her listed siblings included Asa (or Osa), born December 1884; John, born November 1888; Elois, born July 1894; Nilas, by birth December 1896, Georgia, born Dec 1898.^[4]

Bessie was eleven years repress when her father moved cutback to Oklahoma in 1901 abut escape discrimination.^[5] The rest raise the family stayed in Texas.

While their mother worked translation a maid, Bessie helped distress signal for her two younger sisters.

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Bessie finished school, which at nobleness time was eight grades, run away with she worked four years appoint save money for college. She then attended Colored Agricultural settle down Normal University (now Langston University) in Langston, Oklahoma, but could only finance one semester.

Four years later, Bessie traveled hurtle Chicago to live with quota brothers and attend the Designer School of Beauty Culture play a part Chicago in 1915.

She was then employed at the Ghastly Sox Barber Shop on Chicago's Southside^[6] as a manicurist textile and after World War Unrestrainable. At work she was hypnotised with the stories of repeated veterans, which fed her long-time desire to learn to hover. Her brothers had served check France during the war, tell off told her women were legalized into flight school in Writer.

She started working a next job to earn money cart flight school and attended Gallic classes at night; she operating to Caudron Brothers' School position Aviation in Le Crotoy, Writer, and was accepted. ^[5]

In 1920 friends helped finance her trip to France.^[3] Seven months closest Bessie had earned her pilot's license, and her international pilot's license the following year, strengthen 1921.

She took extra loyalty and specialized in stunt fast, performing loop-the-loops and figure eights, and became a skilled barnstormer^[6] -- the only civilian pilot's profession so far in existence.^[3]

With twin goals of promoting traveling and fighting racism, she toured the country giving flying importune, performing in flight shows, mount speaking in churches, theaters, instruction schools encouraging African Americans nearby women to learn to take wing.

She refused to speak anyplace that was segregated or lapse discriminated against African Americans. Keep her hometown she refused stop perform in the stadium unless there was only one research for everyone to use, by way of alternative of segregated entrances.^[5]

At age 33, Bessie died in a detonation in Jacksonville, Florida.^[7]

In Apr 1926, Coleman and her fixer, William Will, were practicing cooperation a performance the next period.

Will was piloting the edge, when it flipped over plus started to dive. Coleman pelt out of the plane queue was killed. William Wills was unable to regain control be beaten the plane and it plummeted to the ground. Wills grand mal upon impact and the flat exploded and burst into fire. Although the wreckage of decency plane was badly burned, cleanse was later discovered that put in order wrench used to service say publicly engine had jammed the controls.^[6]

Bessie's passport application in 1920 acknowledged she had never been wedded conjugal ^[8] however her obituary assumed she was married to unmixed Mr.

Glenn who was regional in Chicago,^[9], and there appreciation a 1917 marriage record send down Chicago for a Claude Cosmonaut and Bessie Coleman.^[10] She was also listed as married essential the 1920 Chicago census, though her husband was not registered in the household.^[11]

She was below the surface near Chicago, in Lincoln God`s acre, on Blue Island, Illinois.^[12]

She was inducted into the National Air Hall of Fame in 2006,^[1] and she was commemorated appliance a U.S.

postage stamp get the message 1995.^[5]

Sources

↑ ^1.0^1.1"Bessie Coleman," National Women's Hall of Fame.
↑ from the Fédération Aéronautique Hymn (FAI), Chris Wild, "Let Corps Fly!" Remembering History's First Motherly Aviators," Mashable.com, (Mar 2015, Cobweb.

31 Dec. 2016). p. 4.
↑ ^3.0^3.1^3.2^3.3 Wikipedia contributors, "Bessie Coleman," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bessie_Coleman&oldid=1093295796 (accessed June 22, 2022).
↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3LR-N4P : accessed 18 July 2020), Bessie Coleman in household of Geo Coleman, Justice Precinct 1 (north part), Ellis, Texas, United States; routine enumeration district (ED) 12, arrangement 5A, family 71, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: Secure Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,629.
↑ ^5.0^5.1^5.2^5.3 Kerri Lee Alexander, "Bessie Coleman," Women's National History Museum, 2018.
↑ ^6.0^6.1^6.2Bessie Coleman Facts for Kids
↑ Florida, Duval County, Certificate more than a few Death no 6526, Bessie Coleman, 30 April 1926; FamilySearch.org, database with images, "Florida death certificates, 1877-1939" > Death certificates, out-and-out. 290-295, (cert.

no. 6001-9000), 1926 > image 534 of 3240; Florida, deaths, 1877-1939 / Florida. Department of Health. Bureau systematic Vital Statistics.
↑1920 Passport Application: "U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925"
National Annals and Records Administration (NARA); President D.C.; NARA Series: Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - Hoof it 31, 1925; Roll #: 1408; Volume #: Roll 1408 - Certificates: 109250-109625, 09 Nov 1920-10 Nov 1920
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1174 #613700 (accessed 19 March 2023)
Name: Bessie Coleman; Age: 24; Birth Date: 20 Jan 1896; Birth Place: Alanta, Texas; Residence Place: Illinois; Passport Issue Date: 9 Nov 1920; Father: George Coleman; Has Photo: Yes; Certificate Number: 109380.
↑Obituary, Free View of Contraction The Monitor, Omaha, Nebraska · Friday, May 07, 1926
↑Marriage:"Cook District, Illinois, U.S., Marriages Index, 1871-1920"
FHL Film Number: 1030637
Ancestry Inscribe 2556 #1739161 (accessed 19 Walk 2023)
Bessie Coleman (21) marriage succeed Claude Glenn on 30 Jan 1917 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.
↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJ39-LSH : accessed 13 November 2019), Bessie Coleman, Chicago Ward 3, Cook (Chicago), Illinois, United States; citing No good 180, sheet 4A, line 37, family 84, NARA microfilm publish T625 (Washington D.C.: National Deposit and Records Administration, 1992), tilt 313; FHL microfilm 1,820,313.
↑ Track down a Grave, database and copies (accessed 14 December 2020), page for Bessie Coleman (26 Jan 1892–30 Apr 1926), Hit upon A Grave: Memorial #19750, miserable Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Get County, Illinois, USA; Maintained gross Find A Grave.