The Chicago Defender publicized the event saying the "wonderful little woman" Bessie Coleman would do "heart thrilling stunts." According to a reporter from Kansas, as many as 3,000 people ...

Bessie Coleman was born to sharecroppers in ... was slightly more welcoming to Black people than Texas had been. In Chicago, ...

SI-99-15432~P In the history of black aviation, it is Bessie Coleman ... some 10,000 black Chicago mourners filed past her coffin. Coffey never met Coleman. The Arkansas native quietly mapped ...