"Originally published as 'Bessie Coleman: first black woman pilot' in 2001"--Copyright page.
"The story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to earn her pilot's license"--
This book discusses the life of the determined African American woman who went all the way to France in order to earn her pilot's license in 1921.
Simply worded biography of the first African American woman to become an airplane pilot.
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