BESSIE COLEMAN

Bessie Coleman overcame discrimination, prejudice and long odds to become the first African-American woman pilot in the world.  She devoted her life to raising money so she could open a flying school for others of her race.  Bessie Coleman was 33 when she died in a plane crash in 1926.  It is said pilots fly over her grave every Memorial Day and drop flowers in her honor.

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