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| Bessie Coleman |
"Always
wear your seatbelt. In fact, wear two and a goddam parachute."
Bessie Coleman,
the world's first African-American women aviator. Born in Texas, she earned her
pilot's license in 1921 in France—two years before Amelia Earhart earned hers. Colemen
went to France to study aviation after being denied admission to school's in
the United States. Coleman died April 30, 1926, when she fell from the plane
during an aviation exhibition. She was 34 years old.
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