'Brave Bessie' ascended as true pioneer in the skies
JOHN CORNYN U.S. SENATOR
      When Bessie Coleman looked at the distant stars above her childhood home in Texas, the possibility of human flight was just a theory. But by the time she was 30, this native Texan was herself an aviation star. Among other achievements, Bessie Coleman became the first African American woman to obt...
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