Goaded on by her brother, who challenged what African American women could do, Bessie Coleman, became the first Black-Native American woman in the country awarded a pilot’s license. When she couldn’t find an American pilot to teach her, Coleman studied French, saved her money, solicited donors, and went to France. In 1921, after seven months of flight school there, she received an international pilot’s license. A year later, she was performing aeronautical stunts around the country.
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Coleman died in Jacksonville, Florida, at the age of 34, during a test flight. The plane, piloted by someone else, flipped, and she fell to the ground below before it crashed. Her body lay in state in Florida and Chicago, with roughly 10,000 people paying their respects. In 2006, she was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame.