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Coleman [13] was born on January 26, 1892, in Atlanta, Texas, [10] the tenth of 13 children of George Coleman, an African American who may have had Cherokee or Choctaw grandparents, and Susan Coleman, who was African American.
Bessie Coleman. African-American pilot Bessie Coleman was killed when her Curtiss JN-4 biplane crashed in Jacksonville, Florida. Final efforts to stave off a lockout of British coal miners failed when the miners rejected the owners' final offer of an average wage cut of 13 percent and a "temporary" workday increase from seven to eight hours. [2 ...
Powell then founded the Bessie Coleman Aero Club, in honor of the first female black aviator, who had died three years before. [3] In 1929, Chicago Congressman Oscar De Priest, then the nation's only black representative, visited Los Angeles.
He went on to say that Coleman’s manner of death seemed odd to him as well. “There's a lot of questions — questions about the stairs he fell down out, how he died,” Bridges says. “I just ...
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