1. Bessie Coleman
By Iya

2. Early Years
Bessie Coleman was born January 26th 1892 in Atlanta, Texas. Bessie was born into a poor family. Usually Bessie and her sister would work over school days and holidays picking cotton to make clothes to sell.

3. Parents Her mother was a seamstress and was all African-American.
Her father picked cotton for white men and he was one quarter African-American and three quarters Choctaw and Cherokee Indian.

4. Adult Life
In 1915 at the age of 23, Bessie moved to Chicago with her brother Walter. While she was living with her brother she decided that she wanted to be the first of her race to fly an airplane. But she had figured out that she had to go to France to realize her dream.

5. Death
Bessie Coleman died on April She died when her plane went out of control causing her to fall out of her airplane.

6. A Book about Bessie Coleman
What Impressed me
What impressed me was that she was the first African-American to get a pilots licenses and that she was the first African- American woman to pilot a plane.
A Book about Bessie Coleman

7. Books and photos

8. Credits http://www.yahoo.com http://www.google.com