Bessie coleman why famous

On Thursday, Coleman would have been years old. To mark her birthday, Google paid homage to her with a Doodle on its homepage. Born on January 26, After completing high school, she was admitted to the Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University, now known as Langston University, where she spent a year before heading to Chicago in Coleman was rejected from American aviation schools because of the colour of her skin and her gender.

She was told to attend an international aviation school in France , so spent her savings learning French and headed to Paris in Bessie Coleman was determined to fly.

On this day in , she became the 1st Black woman to earn a pilot's license. Visit Us Contact Search. Menu Contact. Visit Us Shopping Cart 0 items. Yearning to further her education she worked and saved her money and enrolled at Langston University in Oklahoma where she completed one term before running out of funds and returning home to Texas.

In at age 23, Bessie moved to Chicago to live with her older brother. She became a beautician and worked as a manicurist at a barbershop on the south side of the city. There, she met Robert Abbott, the publisher of the Chicago Defender.

After graduating, she embarked on a journey to Oklahoma to attend the Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University Langston University , where she completed only one term due to financial constraints. In , at 23 years old, Coleman moved to Chicago, where she lived with her brothers and worked as a manicurist. Not long after her move to Chicago, she began listening to and reading stories of World War I pilots, which sparked her interest in aviation. In , a time of both gender and racial discrimination, Coleman broke barriers and became the world's first Black woman to earn a pilot's license.

Because flying schools in the United States denied her entry, she took it upon herself to learn French and move to France to achieve her goal. Though she wanted to start a flying school for African Americans when she returned to the U. In , she became the first African American woman in America to make a public flight. On April 30, , Coleman was tragically killed at only 34 years old when an accident during a rehearsal for an aerial show sent her plummeting to her death.