Author: Carlee Orman Publisher: AJS ISBN: Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 52
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Fired by the passion to fly, Bessie Coleman beats all odds to become the first Black woman pilot. In the early 1900s, an 18-year-old black girl arrived on the streets of Chicago, dreaming of flying someday. Born into poverty and racial discrimination, Bessie Coleman had an indomitable spirit even as a child. From the cotton fields of remote Texas village to the aviation school in France, Bessie Coleman’s extraordinary story is riven with struggles, poverty, rejections, and racism. Buy the book to know how Bessie Coleman, a pioneer aviator who survived segregation, traveled hundreds of miles away from her home and defied all racial prejudices to conquer the skies, at a time when a Black woman didn’t dare to dream.
Author: Reeve Lindbergh Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 9780763603618 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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Presents a chronicle in verse of the life of Bessie Coleman, the first African-American aviator, who dreamed of flying as a child in the cotton fields of Texas and persevered until she made that dream come true. Reprint.
Author: Cay T. Ed Publisher: ISBN: 9781735932743 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Who should you talk to when people say, "you can't come?" Read about a time when a girl stopped running from her doubts and decided to soar above them. Fly up high with Bessie - into the clouds and above all the nay-sayers.Read about young Bessie Coleman the flying sensation! Perhaps it all began with clouds and kites. Take a peak at the essence of her character as you glance into Bessie's world of innovation "doing what must be done." Fly Bessie Fly is a part of author Dr. L. Richelle's Black Heroines Series. It is the fifth book of the five book series. Black Heroine Series modernizes historical Descendants of Black American Slaves for contemporary readers.
Author: Andrea Doshi Publisher: ISBN: 9780998504704 Category : Languages : en Pages : 36
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This fairy tale is inspired by the story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to hold a pilot's license in the world. 'When Bessie was growing up, no one could have imagined that a girl from a humble family would get out of the cotton fields and become a pilot. But with the help of her best friend Bloony, Bessie uses her courage and determination to make her dream come true!'
Author: Reeve Lindbergh Publisher: Turtleback ISBN: 9780606136686 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages :
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A rhymed telling of the life of the first African American aviator, who dreamed of flying as a child in the cotton fields of Texas, and persevered until she made that dream come true.
Author: Louise Borden Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books ISBN: 9780689824579 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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Besse Coleman was born in rural Texas in 1892. She loved school, especially learning about numbers, and she was a good reader, too. Yet when it was time to pick cotton she had to work in the fields instead of going to school. Nevertheless, she was determined to be somebody when she grew up. In her early twenties, Bessie moved to Chicago. Perhaps there she could "find a bigger life." In the city, Bessie heard many tales of World War I from returned veterans. She also heard there were woman airplane pilots in France. From then on, she was determined to become a pilot. But she soon found out that no one would teach a woman -- especially a woman with dark skin -- how to fly. To study in France was her only chance, and by working hard and saving her money, she managed at last to get there. Bessie Coleman became the first African-American to earn a pilot's license. She was somebody. The inspiring story of her difficult early years, her success as a stunt pilot putting on daring air shows in many states, and her dedication to telling young African-Americans wherever she went, "You can be somebody. You can fly high just like me," is as moving and important today as it was then. Simply told with evocative full-color illustrations, this is a special book for today's young people.
Author: Doris L. Rich Publisher: Smithsonian Institution ISBN: 1588345122 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 187
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Here is the brief but intense life of Bessie Coleman, America's first African American woman aviator. Born in 1892 in Atlanta, Texas, she became known as “Queen Bess,” a barnstormer and flying-circus performer who defied the strictures of race, sex, and society in pursuit of a dream.
Author: Reeve Lindbergh Publisher: ISBN: 9781606862308 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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As a young woman in the 1920s, Bessie Coleman's chances of becoming a pilot were slim. But she never let her dream die and became the first licensed African-American aviator. In "Nobody Owns the Sky", Reeve Lindbergh honors Coleman's memory with a poem that sings of her accomplishment. Full color.
Author: Carlee Orman
Author: Reeve Lindbergh
Author: Roda Ahmed
Author: Cay T. Ed
Author: Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg
Author: Andrea Doshi
Author: Reeve Lindbergh
Author: Louise Borden
Author: Doris L. Rich
Author: Reeve Lindbergh