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Black History Month Facts.
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January 26, 1893
When was she born?
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she began listening to and reading stories of World War I pilots
How did she become interested in pilot?
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she was 32
how old was she when she died?
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Chicago
where was a public library named after her?
100
February.
What month is black history month?
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Atlanta, Texas
Where was she born?
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manicurists
What was her first job?
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Jacksonville, Florida
where was she when she died?
200
Bessie Coleman Boulevard in Waxahachie, Texas is named in her honor.
what did texas do in her honor?
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Negro History Week
What was black history months name at first?
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12 siblings.
How many siblings did she have?
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because she was black and a woman
why was she not allowed in american flight schools?
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the plane she was in unexpectedly dived, then spun around. Coleman was thrown from the plane at 2,000 ft and died instantly when she hit the ground
how did she die?
300
In 1977 a group of African American women pilots established the Bessie Coleman Aviators Club.
what club was made after her death?
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an annual celebration of achievements by black Americans
What is black history month?
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It was a one room school but she attented all of her 8 years there.
How was her school?
400
in france, she took french classes then traveled to Paris on November 20, 1920. She learned to fly in a Nieuport Type 82 biplane
where was she allowed to attend flighrt school?
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a wrench used to service the engine had slid into the gearbox and jammed it
What caused the plane to crash?
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an annual flyover at Chicago’s Lincoln Cemetery to honor Bessie
What did the Challenger Pilots’ Association of Chicago begin?
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it began in 1915. and it was official in 1976
What year did it begin in? And when was it official by the presidents?
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Her father George Coleman left the family.
How did her life take a dramatic turn?
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in September 1921 sailed for New York
where was her first trip?
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Her mechanic and publicity agent, William Wills
Who was flying the plane?
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Bessie Coleman Aero Club in Los Angeles in 1929
What did William J. Powell establish after her death?
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in honor of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass birthday, the seond week of february.
why did they make an national Negro History week in 1926?and when did it land?