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Bessie Coleman


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I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

Bessie Coleman

Who had to go to France to learn how to fly as Americans would not instruct a black lady. Quoted in 1991 book Ladybirds: The Untold Story of Women Pilots in America.

I refused to take no for an answer.

Bessie Coleman

Quoted in For Pilot , Every ‘No’ Got Her Closer to ‘Yes’, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 January 2022.

Besse Coleman

The air is the only place free from prejudices.

Bessie Coleman

The first African-American woman to become an airplane pilot, 1921. Quoted in : Remembering an Aviation Pioneer, Flying magazine, January 2017.

Besse Coleman

I knew we had no aviators, neither men nor women, and I knew the race needed to be represented along this most important line, so I thought it my duty to risk my life to learn aviation and to encourage flying among men and women of the Race, who are so far behind the white race in this special line.

Bessie Coleman

In a newspaper primarily for African-American readers. Aviatrix Must Sight Away Life to Learn Trade, Chicago Defender, 8 October 1921. .


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