Names: Coleman, Bessie,1892-1926 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Bessie Coleman was an African American civil aviator. She was the first woman of African-American descent to hold a civilian pilot license. Due to discrimination against blacks in the U. S., she traveled to Paris in, 1920 to learn to fly and earn an international pilot's license. She then returned to the United States in 1921 and became a "barnstorming" stunt flier. "Queen Bess," as she was known, was a highly popular draw for the next five years. She was a speaker, was often interviewed by newspapers, and she was admired by both blacks and whites. In 1926 Coleman died in a tragic airplane accident. She was 34 years old.
Date:: [1921-1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Bessie Coleman standing alongside a plane in a field. Next to her is an unidentified male pilot. Coleman is wearing a leather pilot's cap, goggles and a jacket. .
Date:: [1921-1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Bessie Coleman standing with a large car. She is part of an advertisement for California Made Coast Tires.
Date:: [1921-1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Bessie Coleman standing next to a airplane propeller. She is wearing air pilot clothing, including a flying cap, a jacket and knickerbockers, and knee-high lace-up boots.
Date:: [1921-1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Studio portrait of Bessie Coleman. She is wear a leather flight cap and goggles.
Date:: [1921-1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: View of two women, members of Bessie Coleman's family, standing arm-in-arm in front of a door. One is wearing a fur coat and holding a child's doll.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Bessie Coleman standing on the wheel of an airplane, wearing air pilot clothing, including a leather flying helmet, a jacket and knickerbockers, a leather coat, and knee-high lace-up boots.
Date:: [circa 1922]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Bessie Coleman standing in an air field wearing air pilot clothing, including a leather flying helmet, a jacket and knickerbockers, a leather coat, and knee-high lace-up boots.
Date:: [circa 1922]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Studio portrait of a relative of Bessie Coleman, an African American woman, holding an award cup, most likely earned by Bessie Coleman.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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