Bessie Coleman - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Address: 101 N. East St.
City: Atlanta
County: Cass
Subject Codes: AV, WN, AA
Year Marker Erected: 2002
Marker Size: 18" x 28"

Marker Number: 12597 Marker Text: (1892-1926) The tenth of 13 children born to tenant farmers Susan and George Coleman, famed aviatrix Bessie Coleman was a native of Atlanta, Texas. The family moved to Waxahachie when Bessie was two years old. She followed her brothers to Chicago in 1915 and developed an interest in flying. Because she could find no one in the United States who would teach an African-American woman, Coleman learned to fly in France and obtained her international pilot's license in 1921. Upon her return to the United States, she was hailed as the first black woman to pilot an airplane. Bessie Coleman died in an air accident in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1926 and is buried near Chicago. (2002)

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